June was a beautiful month in rural SW Scotland, despite very mixed weather. There was wildlife everywhere and we made steady progress with the endless to do list on the house project.
June was a beautiful month in rural SW Scotland, despite very mixed weather. There was wildlife everywhere and we made steady progress with the endless to do list on the house project.
It’s raining outside, so its much easier to focus on writing, hence two posts in fairly quick succession. We are recovering from a month full of visitors. May is always a busy month for friends and family wanting to visit. I suppose I can’t blame them, May has always been my favourite month for flora …
Although we took time out to complete our Finding Enough monthly financial review as usual at the start of May, I am horribly late in turning it into a post. I’ll save May’s musings for the next instalment (which will hopefully be less tardy) but sufficed to say, it’s been a busy spring in our …
A lot of rain means no shortage of rainbows, and apart from a brief cold spell, there was a lot of rain in November! The update is very late this month, despite starting it on time. We seem to be juggling lots of minor things and I’d forgotten how much time walking a dog takes …
A very tardy update this month, as September has turned out to be very eventful (in a good way), but more about that next month – or in a couple of weeks. August started in fairly unremarkable fashion. I carried on with the cement stripping and re-pointing the gable end of the house, we spent …
July was the first whole month we have spent at home in a long time, and it showed in the amount we managed to get done on the house. The bees returned from their holiday to the field beans, and it has been lovely watching them on their favourite blooms in the garden when I’ve …
January was a month of huge contrast, as we spent the first 2 weeks at home in Scotland after returning from Christmas and New Year down south, but then the last 2 weeks were spent on our most adventurous house sit to date – in San Diego! We enjoyed the winter sunshine in Majorca last …
The flip side of long summer days in this part of the world are the short winter ones. On the shortest day, the sun didn’t rise until 08.40, and it set at 15.51. That meant a lot of sunset walks, as time got away from us and we rushed out before it got dark. Some …
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 …
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