Glamping at The Barley Bothy I first heard about Boutique Farm Bothies when scrolling through Instagram and saw a repost by VisitAberdeen of someone relaxing in a hot tub in a picturesque countryside setting. ‘Wood-fired hot tub’ in the caption caught my attention and I immediately wanted to find out more. Years ago, when we […]
Author: Emma Gibb
World Book Day: The BFG Costume
DIY BFG Costume For World Book Day 2018, Isaac decided he wanted to dress up as The BFG. We had just finished reading the book and Isaac had adored it; I’ve not heard him laugh at a book as much as he did when listening to the BFG. We found some green trousers, a white school […]
Snowdrops at Cambo Estate
I first heard about Cambo Estate a few years ago and have long wanted to visit, particularly when I heard about its lovely Snowdrop Festival. We really enjoyed our first visit this weekend and will definitely be adding it to our ‘must visit again soon’ list. The Estate Located just south of Kingsbarns in the idyllic East […]
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5 National Trust for Scotland Properties We Love
National Trust for Scotland Properties in Aberdeenshire and Angus We spend a lot of time visiting National Trust for Scotland properties in Aberdeenshire and Angus with our two little ones. With castles a-plenty in Aberdeenshire, a local NTS property is often the meet-up location of choice when catching up with friends (fitting the requirements of […]
Snapshots and Scenes from October
October was the month my baby turned 5. Each year when the trees are at their most glorious and we kick through piles of leaves, I remember driving home from hospital with my newborn. Those first walks as a family of three in countryside lit in shades of yellows and reds. Finding my feet as […]
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A Self-Catering Holiday at Crieff Hydro
A Self-Catering Stay at Crieff Hydro In the summer we spent a week at Crieff Hydro (and, yes, it has taken me a ridiculously long time to write about it here – life just took over, as it does). So in this little rewind to our summer holidays, here’s how we spent our week in […]
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Snapshots and Scenes from September
I went on a week-long course at the beginning of September and then crammed in two weeks’ of revision before the exam, which meant that September passed in a bit of blur. When I wasn’t working or studying and I had some time with the littles, we mainly spent it collecting fruit at Charleton Fruit […]
Metamorphosis
A poem about becoming a mother In the moment you arrived and your cry echoed through my heart I became someone new. A different version of myself as if I’d stepped from a cocoon. Still the same but changed. So deep deep in love, exhausted, transformed, in awe and terrified. A mother. Still […]
Lucky
Parenthood poetry I woke tired and grumpy today after a night with an unsettled little and a lie-in that was broken up by prodding fingers and shouts and shrieks. I went outside to the garden, cradling a cup of tea drank in some sunshine, picked the last of the sweetpeas, took a few moments […]
A Big Step
When they placed you on my chest and I smiled and said, “Oh, it’s you”, as if I already knew the corners of your face, this day felt so very far away. Baby days spent in a bubble with toddler days stretched out ahead – fort-building, slow toddler-paced walks outdoors, and afternoons curled up in […]