Top ten Thursdays is here again and a subject after my own heart - food, and Italian food to be specific. So many options and some may be a little surprising. I love Italian food and have very fond memories of the Rialto Restaurant in Burnie, Tasmania - the city I did my nurse training … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays – Italian Food

Recently we went for a day trip to Dufftown which is in the north east of Scotland and has a very long history with a Christian community being established there in 566 AD. It's not a very big town but is very important in the Whiskey industry having nine distilleries. Before the most recent two … Continue reading Dufftown – home to whiskey

Life hack (or life hacking) refers to any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hack)This weeks top ten really stumped me as I couldn’t think of any life hacks that I do so realised I might have to be inventive with this post. I thought and thought until my head hurt … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays – Life Hacks

On Saturday, once the rain had stopped, we went to the Nairn Show. The Nairnshire Farming Society originated in 1798 but I'm not sure how long the show has been going. We love shows as it's great to see all the animals, creativity, colourful displays, and people enjoying themselves.Highland band entertaining the crowd.In the craft … Continue reading Nairn Country Show

End of the month and time for the Monthly photo blogging challenge with this month's theme being photographer's choice. What to choose - my first thought was take photos of my favourite things, Ken, Cookie, Muffin, Bramble, and cake, but as they all feature in a lot of my blogs anyway I thought that might … Continue reading Photographers choice – monthly blogging challenge

I'm slightly crazy as I've joined another blogging challenge, but I couldn't resist this one as I love doing lists of favourite things. This challenge is organised by the lovely Tamara Gerber at Confessions of a part-time working mom (click on the blog title to go to her site and see what others have come up with)So … Continue reading Top Ten Thursdays – 80’s songs

Our short break on the West Coast of Scotland continues. Because Thursday was such a glorious day we headed to Tayvallich for lunch as it's a really pretty spot. We had a fabulous lunch at the Tayvallich Coffee Shop which is behind the little local shop - scrummy vegetarian haggis and great view looking out … Continue reading Sunshine and ancient history on Scotland’s West Coast

More of our short break in Argyll - the reason we had chosen this area is that this is where my beloved grew up and we hadn't visited the area for many years. We woke up on the Thursday morning to glorious sunshine and blue skies which was wonderful for a day of exploring and … Continue reading Argyll memories in the sun

I've just had a lovely week off so there's several blogs to come of our adventures on the west coast of Scotland. This post is just going to cover our journey to our destination of Ardrishaig which is where we stayed. We traveled down the A82 to go through Glencoe, which is one of the … Continue reading The incredible majesty of Glencoe

Early in Spring we stopped at Brodie Castle for a wander as it's quite close to Nairn where we live. It's a 16th century castle set in a 71 hectare estate. As it was quite late in the day we decided not to go through the castle, leaving that for another day and instead had … Continue reading Brodie Castle in spring