During the Easter holidays we visited the new Playful Garden at Brodie Castle. It had only recently opened and, as we holiday frequently in Moray, we were all excited to visit somewhere new in the area. As we have family membership for the National Trust of Scotland, it was free for us all to visit. […]
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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 […]
Easter Holidays in Moray
Last week I started a new job and whilst I’ve been spending the Easter holidays in Inverness getting trained up, my littles have been enjoying time with grandparents in Findhorn. I’ve loved coming home each night to hear what they’ve been up to, and so I thought I’d share some of these things here in case […]
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What I Love about Findhorn
My New Year began in Findhorn on the Moray Coast, as many do for me (both my family and my husband’s family live here) so it seems fitting that my first blog post of 2017 is about this charming little village. I’ve written before about what Findhorn means to me but here are six things that I love […]
A Tale of Two Castles
I feel like I’m playing catch up with most things at the moment; the housework (particularly laundry), a list of things I’ve been trying to accomplish for weeks now (print photos/organise the October holidays/write thank you cards); my blog. When life gets that bit more hectic, time to just sit and write gets buried under the […]
The blog posts I didn’t write…
This year was the year my family grew another branch. My blog took a back seat for most of the year whilst I adjusted to life as a mother to two. And so I’m ending this year with a number of posts still swirling around in the corners of my mind, the posts that were pushed […]
Covesea Lighthouse
Of the 145 steps to the top (167 if you count the steps from the basement), it was probably around half way up that I remembered that I’m not overly fond of heights. When I stumbled across the website for the Covesea Lighthouse in Lossiemouth before a recent short break in Moray I immediately thought […]
The Strathspey Railway
Three things you should know about me: I am a hopeless romantic; I am a bit of a history geek; I love nothing more than spending time exploring Scotland and taking photographs. So a trip on Scotland’s oldest heritage railway line in the beautiful Cairngorms National Park combined these elements perfectly. The hour and a half round […]
Highlights of 2014
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 […]