The first day of our week off - hooray. We decided to stay quite local for our exploring today and our first stop was at Auldearn Antiques which is an aladdins cave of stuff! So many things that you could furnish a whole house and find clothes to wear if you were into a retro … Continue reading Antiques, wildflowers, and unicorns

On Sunday we headed out for a magical mystery tour around the highlands, trying to find the sun as it was a bit miserable where we were. Our first stop was in Newtonmore which is 57 miles away in the Cairngorms National Park. We went into The Wild Flour Cafe which was designed with me … Continue reading Colourful Scottish Wildcats and other odd things

In the early 90's I met a girl, Elaine, from the UK who told me the town she lived in was the centre of the universe and that town was Macclesfield. That was 24 years ago and I've been to Macclesfield three times over the years and it's very unassuming for such an important place … Continue reading Macclesfield – the centre of the universe?

Time for the monthly photo blogging challenge and June's theme is Baseball!! Not something we get a lot of in the Scottish Highlands so I was in a bit of a dilemma about how to represent it. My first thought was to take pictures of things you might find at a baseball game, but after … Continue reading Baseball – monthly photo blogging challenge

This weekend was a hodgepodge of mini adventures. First, I was working on Saturday as we had a kid's day at work - what do you think of the addition of pink pipe cleaners to my glasses? I also had purple pipe cleaners in my hair but I took them out before I forgot and … Continue reading A highland hodgepodge

This post is a bit of a mishmash but sometimes that's what our weekends are like. On Saturday evening we found this lovely little lady in our garden - it's only the second hedgehog that I've seen in the wild. We've visited the hedgehog rescue centre of Tiggywinkle's outside London and loved seeing the little … Continue reading A hedgehog, midwives up a mountain, and a cookie shaped like a cow.

I just realised that I haven't written a blog post for a while about the wonderful furbies we share our lives with. Animals are such an important part of days of fun and we wouldn't be without them. Any post about furbies has to start with Tiddles - she was my lovely cat that I got … Continue reading Furbies make every day fun

At the weekend we headed out to explore part of the area known as Royal Deeside - the countryside and towns around the River Dee. Our destination was Braemar, which hosts the Braemar gathering each year (highland games) in September and members of the royal family always attend. To get there we had to go … Continue reading Royalty, rabbits, and a faithful servant

Part two of our lovely day out on Sunday - you know we couldn't possibly have gone out for a whole day and not found at least one graveyard to wander around. We stopped in Dores to explore this lovely space which is a mixture of modern and old headstones.I loved this epitaph - below … Continue reading Graveyards – both old and ancient

What a fabulous weekend it was - sunshine and time with my beloved. We headed out for a lovely Sunday drive down the side of Loch Ness. Our destination was Fort Augustus at the bottom of the loch - it's 50 miles from home.One thing you're guaranteed of in Fort Augustus is tourists, of many … Continue reading Day trip to Fort Augustus