Category: Blog

  • Nature’s reward

    On my sister’s bday back in May, the niece said she would get nature’s reward and then there was a rainbow. I liked the concept as well as the execution! Pretty much every day here I have nature’s reward, which is heartbreakingly good for me and my mental health. Together with the joy of the…

  • 27

    27c today!

  • Stone masons create a mill stone by hand in 1966

  • Dragonfly

    Just as I started researching whether you can buy dragonflies in, as you can do with bees (seems weird but), I saw an indigenous one over at the barn. YES! As well as being beyond beautiful, they eat clegs. A match made in heaven.

  • 27

    27C today!

  • Florissed

    Blimey! Storm Floris blew in Monday and caused a load of damage round these parts. 134 mph winds recorded at the top of Cairn Gorm!? I mean that’s a mountain top, but still. No trees up there, plenty round here where speeds were prob 70 mph. Quite a lot came down and im also noticing…

  • Dear diary

    Oh dear I have rather neglected the blog. But i have been keeping notes at least as various visitors passed through and now last two weeks I have regained control of the veg garden from the weeds 🙂 So wot gwan? Well, I have been planting trees (and bushes). I have been cutting back gorse…

  • Inchgower distillery

    When I booked the tour and tasting at Inchgower distillery as part of the Spirit of Speyside 2025, I was envisaging cycling over on a relaxed balmy summer day then after a pleasant visit, cruising along the coast to Cullen to lie back on the beach and enjoy the waves. However this is Scotland so…

  • Beltane Lagmore

    On my way back from visiting the Cairn distillery, I twifelled a bit then decided of course I should stop at Upper Lagmore to say hello to this most powerful of sites. Indeed, I got a tingle when I approached and it felt good to be there. The weather was poor and the photos are…

  • Sold my old house!

    Completed today, phew what a process that was. Fell through several times, eventually worked out.