Category: Outdoors

Winter beginnings

Wednesday night was Hallowe’en or Samhain (pronounced Sah-win) if you’re more of the Celtic persuasion, a night when belief has it that the boundary between our world and the next can be more easily...

Wednesday

Helloo!  How are you doing?  Thanks for all your lovely comments on my last post – I’ve not been so good at replying to them all over the holidays but I will catch up soon!...

Stockholm

This time last week, it was our last day in Stockholm.  We’d been there since late on Wednesday night, the second “instalment” of our family holidays which we decided this year to split into...

Evening shadows

It’s usually easier for my schedule to walk the dog earlier in the day but recently we’ve been heading out in the evening instead.  I’d forgotten just how nice it is to see the...

Walking with alpacas

It was May Day bank holiday weekend here in the UK last weekend, a holiday weekend that always coincides with the first Monday in May.  For the first time in a long time on...

Easter holidays

We’re half way through small daughter’s school Easter holidays, and we’ve got plenty done.  There has been bedroom tidying (long-overdue), Easter egg eating (there has to be some reward for the bedroom tidying!), and...