This time last year I was living in a cottage in the Speyside village of Dufftown, twelve months on and we are now living on the East Coast, after having had three different addresses this year (the Year of Packing and Unpacking). I haven’t been able to write this blog as much as I’d have […]
Aberdeenshire
It’s been a while…
My rather neglected blog has been left to gather dust these last few months, I’m sorry to say. I last wrote in the summer in a snatched moment of quiet time before life frog-marched me into autumn. Recently I’ve found little time between working and motherhood for my own writing; my trips and journeys of the […]
Crovie
They huddle, gathered in a line, with hunched hills stooped behind. What hardy souls to have placed roots here, almost in the sea itself; a place so subject to the whim of waves, unrelenting on the days when whipped into a rage. Arm in arm this little row of houses perch on the very edge of […]
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A Morning at Drum Castle
Since moving to Culter five months ago, we’ve often driven to nearby Drum Castle to walk in its woodland (I love the peacefulness of the Old Wood of Drum). On Sunday morning, however, our walk was abandoned when we discovered that the play park my toddler has gazed at so longingly over the last few months has […]
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The Seabird Spectacle at RSPB Fowlsheugh
This blog post should really be entitled: ‘How my search for puffins led to two amazing coastal and seabird colony discoveries’ (not the catchiest title though). I hadn’t realised until last week that you could see puffins in the Aberdeenshire area, and what started as a fun idea for a family day out ended up in […]
Aberdeenshire’s Spectacular Coastline
It was my favourite kind of day – a new area to be explored and glorious sunny weather in which to take in the new sights. The kind of day in Scotland for which I am ever-so appreciative: where the deep blue of the sky and the shimmering sea makes my heart swell with happiness; where my very […]
The Old Deeside Line: Peterculter
It was one of the first things I discovered when we moved to Peterculter. I had lived in Aberdeen years ago but never knew it existed; stretching all the way from Duthie Park in Aberdeen out to Banchory in Royal Deeside, meandering alongside the River Dee. The Old Deeside Line, or Deeside Way, is an old railway […]