Autumn is in full swing now and despite the best efforts of storm Ashley, the continuing mild weather has meant that the beautiful autumnal leaves have stayed on the trees for a little longer. Apart from a weekend dash down to Shropshire for a friend’s birthday party, we have been at home all month enjoying …
Despite being ill for a couple of weeks, I managed to squeeze quite a lot into September. The theme was definitely swimming, as I figured that I could still complete my sport relief 10k challenge in the month if I put my mind to it, even though I was out of the water for 12 …
This may be a briefer than usual update, as September has brought with it a dose of shingles. It is not an experience I would recommend and has rather reduced my stamina for typing, as well as everything else…….. I am hoping that the anti-virals I have been prescribed will reduce my likeness to Worf …
We started the month with a week in the Isle of Man to look after 2 miniature schnauzers called Stanlee (grey) and Gracie (black). Their owners were new to house sitting, but were very welcoming and very organised. We were greeted with glasses of champagne and they cooked us an amazing meal the night we …
Longer days have been lifting our spirits for some time, and June brought the longest day. Up here in Scotland that meant sunset at 10pm. I celebrated the occasion in slightly hippy fashion with an organised sunset solstice swim, but more about that later. It is very easy to lose track of time with long, …
There is no question about the highlight of last month. We were so lucky to be in one of the UKs best dark skies areas to witness the most impressive Aurora Borealis show in 20 years. I still can’t quite believe we got to see this from our garden! Whilst it was much brighter through …
April was another busy month with both human and canine visitors, loads of new foraging opportunities and more destruction nasty surprises progress with the house projects. All around us there was new growth, new lambs every day and new birds returning from a winter somewhere warmer.
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 …
If you are a collared dove, apparently September is nesting season. The collared doves in our garden always seem to spend most of the year working out how to build a nest and then finally work it out about 5 months after every other species, and 2021 was no exception. If you are a collared …
Finding Enough 