We had visitors from London up this holiday weekend (Hello Priya!). Spent the weekend showing them around some of my favourite places in the area. It was so good to take time out and just enjoy our where we live – I haven’t done enough of that in the last few years. We sailed down [...]
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Tourist at Home
Posted in Scotland, Travel, tagged Caledonian Canal, Cromarty, Glen Affric, Plodda Falls, Redcastle, Scotland, tourist, travel on June 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Castle Forbes
Posted in Scotland on May 26, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Last Sunday Gen and I went to an antiques fair at Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire. Sitting in the sun drinking tea, eating sausage rolls and socialising with the castle dogs was not too shabby a way to spend an afternoon.
Cromarty
Posted in Scotland on May 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I’m off to Cromarty today to visit a friend. It’s a lovely wee place and it has a cracking little pizzeria/restaurant called Sutor Creek. Well worth a visit.
Ne’er Cast a Clout…
Posted in dogs, Scotland, tagged dog, Scotland, snow, spaniel, spring, sunshine, weather, winter on April 3, 2012 | 11 Comments »
There’s a Scottish saying: Ne’er cast a clout till May is oot. It means don’t pack away your winter clothing until the end of May. The following pictures show why this is sound advice in these parts… Last Tuesday. 22 oC. Sunny. Still. This Tuesday. 0 oC. Snowy. Windy. Marco’s happy, at least. He loves [...]
The Market
Posted in Scotland on April 1, 2012 | 8 Comments »
The last Saturday of every month is market day in North Kessock. Organised by Transition Black Isle, the market takes place in the village hall and is a modest but wonderful assortment of local food and craft stalls. There’s a tearoom serving homebaking and in the warmer months plant stalls are lined up outside the [...]
Frozen Firth
Posted in Scotland on February 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I like weather. Today, the temperature remained firmly in the low teens (Celcius) and, both morning and evening, I had to remove layers whilst out walking with Marco. Only a couple of weeks ago, though, we had to wrap up warmly to crunch through the ice that caked the shores of the Beauly Firth on [...]
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Posted in Food, Recipes, Scotland on February 21, 2012 | 21 Comments »
When I was a kid and my parents suggested we went out for a family meal, I only ever wanted to go to one place: Beekie’s Nuek. A traditional Scottish pub in the Aberdeenshire village of Newmachar with a fairly generic pub-grub menu, it was (and, by the looks of things, still is) an unassuming, [...]
Tonight
Posted in Scotland on February 20, 2012 | 9 Comments »
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