February was generally a quiet relaxed month, with a week of frantic activity in the middle. We pottered around the house and garden, decorated the kitchen and contacted local trades for quotes for work we will need help with (building a garage/workshop, taking down a tree, hiring a skip). I also spotted something very speedy …
Unlike the the Scottish Highlands, snow is not actually that common in our SW corner of Scotland, thanks to the jet stream. While most of Scotland was blanketed for a couple of weeks, we only had snow for one morning. It was very pretty while it lasted. As the snow melted away, a huge number of snow drops …
Happy New Year! I will cover a look back on 2023 in a separate post to follow, as I’m still crunching the numbers. For now, I’ll focus on an overview of our December, which was a month of two halves. Two weeks at home in Scotland, followed by two weeks dog sitting in an apartment in Palma, was …
November was definitely a more positive month, as we got our main living spaces sorted and no longer had to do any driving backwards and forwards between our new home and the rental house about an hour away. We handed back the keys to the rental on 1st November, so it’s been nice to be …
My memories of October are mostly of torrential downpours every time we needed to move our belongings from house to van and van to new house. The trips we did on our own in the campervan, we were able to wait for it to ease off a bit, but the two days we hired a …
It happened at last! After 1 year, 9 weeks and 6 days of housesitting, campervanning and renting; on the 14th September, we got the keys to a home that we own. It is an eclectic mix of 18th century shepherd’s cottage and 1980’s additions, but it was the 2 acres of garden, woodland and scrubby …
Another tardy monthly update. I am running late this month because we decided to take advantage of the sunny start to September with a spontaneous trip to the Isle of Arran in the campervan. I did take the laptop, but was far too busy enjoying the amazing weather and scenery to actually turn it on. …
July marked one year since I last spent a day in the office, and one year since we moved out of our home in the East of England. We have certainly had an adventure since then, and have no regrets whatsoever about packing in a conventional 9-5 type lifestyle. When I sat down to write …
Phew, what a scorcher! June was very atypically hot and dry in S W Scotland, we even hit 30 degrees for a couple of days. I am not sure our friends and family really believed it was 10 degrees hotter here than down south at the start of the month, but we made the most …
May was a VERY expensive month!! We do now have somewhere to call home, if only temporarily. We had already signed up to a couple of house sits before we knew that would happen, so 10 days of May were spent the other side of Scotland. This coupled with several trips down south in a …
Finding Enough 