When Terry told me we were going to be spending the last few days of our Highland vacation at a place called The Whispering Pine Lodge, I was almost beside ...
Back in 2019, Terry, Max and I spent 4 hours (No, that's not a typo, it really was just four hours, not days...) on the Isle of Skye, and I ...
Disclosure: We stayed at Isles of Glencoe hotel free of charge. All opinions are my own. Last week, Max's school went on holiday for the October half-term break, and we decided ...
If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen that last week we spent a bit of time in sunny Perthshire, at the Silverwood Resort, so here’s a quick…
I recently spent over a year of my life ghostwriting Scottish historical romance novels, and if you're wondering how on earth I managed to land a gig like that, well, ...
As Old Rose in Titanic once memorably said, "It's been 84 years..." Except, in this case, it's only really been five years, and I'm not talking about the sinking of ...
Seacliff Beach, East Lothian My mum often likes to tell the story of my first foreign holiday: an event which happened when I was roughly the same age Max is now, ...
Last Friday afternoon, Terry and I headed into Edinburgh for a stroll in the spring sunshine, while Max was at nursery. It was three days before restaurants and shops were…
It feels like it's been approximately two seconds since my post about what we got up to in September, but here I am, all ready to wow you with another ...
One of the (very) few upsides of the UK lockdown for us was the fact that the knowledge that it could happen again at any time has really forced us ...
Continuing with our mission to make the most of the (very) occasional sunny days we've been getting this summer - and try to pretend that we're NOT still in the ...
Now, I’m going to start this post by pointing out that I am totally unqualified to tell you what Scottish people hate, because although I am a Scottish person, I’m…
As Scotland's lockdown restrictions have continued to be eased, we've been taking a lot of socially-distanced walks in some of the remotest locations we can think of. This week, however, ...
I hate winter. I hate it with the passion of a thousand hot suns –– which is ironic, really, because if winter HAD a thousand hot suns, I might like ...
Last week, Terry, Max and I headed into Edinburgh for the night, to sample the family package at the city's beautiful Novotel Hotel: here's our Novotel Edinburgh Centre review! With Max ...
Dundee is one of those cities I’ve driven through many times, but had never actually stopped in – so when we stayed at Piperdam Lodges last week, I was keen…
As you've probably gathered by now, we've become big fans of log-cabin style staycations this year: partly because they give us the opportunity to explore parts of Scotland we've never ...
The day we got home from our holiday in Bulgaria, I emptied out my suitcase, and, rather than putting Max's summer clothes back into his wardrobe, I packed them away ...