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Snapshots and Scenes from October

Posted on November 10, 2017June 10, 2019by Emma Gibb

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 Tale of Two Castles

Posted on September 12, 2016September 14, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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The blog posts I didn’t write…

Posted on December 31, 2015March 14, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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Covesea Lighthouse

Posted on November 9, 2015March 15, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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Highlights of 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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