This weeks Top Ten theme is Mothers Day and as I'm not a mother to human children I thought I would share with you the important things to know when you're a mother to furbies.1. One of the first things to realise is that FURniture is called that for a reason, it's there for your … Continue reading Top Ten Thursday – Mothers Day
Reflections on the A to Z challenge – yes, I did it againn
Twentysix posts in one month, what could be easier. Yes, for the second year I signed up to do the A to Z blogging challenge - posting every day of April, except Sundays, for each letter of the alphabet. Crazy as it seems, the first year didn't put me off so I took the plunge … Continue reading Reflections on the A to Z challenge – yes, I did it againn
Top Ten Thursdays – Life Skills
After a few days off from my laptop I've almost recovered from the marathon that was the A to Z blogging challenge, and what better way to flex my typing fingers than with a top ten Thursday. Today we're talking about the life skills we think kids should be learning at school instead of things … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays – Life Skills
Z is for Zero
It's here, the final post for the A to Z blogging challenge, the 26th post in the month of April and I've chosen the temperature we see way too often, Zero.When we made the decision to move to Scotland in 2015 you would have thought we were moving to Outer Mongolia or the North Pole … Continue reading Z is for Zero
Y is for Yes
Here we are with the penultimate post in the A to Z blogging challenge and I've decided to do a post about the word Yes. A small word that consists of three letters and has the power to divide a nation.In 2014 the people of Scotland went to the polls to vote in a referendum … Continue reading Y is for Yes
X is for Xanthic
We're up to the horror letter of X in the A to Z blogging challenge and I have a new word for you to add to your vocabulary - Xanthic, which means 'of or relating to a yellow or yellowish colour' (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/xanthic.At) this time of year there are carpets of yellow around the highlands with … Continue reading X is for Xanthic
W is for Whiskey
I can finally see the light at the end of the very long tunnel that is the A to Z blogging challenge and here we are at the letter W and living in Scotland it had to be Whiskey. People seem to associate whiskey with the Scots and I keep getting told that the reason … Continue reading W is for Whiskey
V is for View
Okay, we're up to the fifth last letter in the A to Z blogging challenge and I've totally gone with the easy option. There are not a lot of Scottish Highland related things starting with the letter V - my friends at work thought I should do Valhalla, the ultimate aim for vikings, as a … Continue reading V is for View
U is for Ullapool
The A to Z challenge is nearing the end with only five letters to go after today - I think I'll sleep for two days straight when we finish the month of April. Today we have U and we visited the village of Ullapool on the northwest coast of the highlands.Ullapool is 70 miles from … Continue reading U is for Ullapool
T is for Tomintoul, highest village in the highlands
We're up to T in the A to Z blogging challenge (still haven't found a V but have had some helpful suggestions from my friends at work) and we've visited the village of Tomintoul which is 39 miles from us.Tomintoul is the highest village in the Scottish Highlands and was founded in 1776 by the … Continue reading T is for Tomintoul, highest village in the highlands
Tasmanian Abroad 