About this blog
"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and winter."- Billy Connolly.
In 2012 I moved back to Canada, and I'm no longer updating this blog. Thanks for visiting.
In 2012 I moved back to Canada, and I'm no longer updating this blog. Thanks for visiting.
Popular Posts
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I considered naming this post “I love the number 62 bus,” but thought it might be confusing. It’s true - I do love the number 62 bus, becaus...
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Anything reborn out of the mire of prohibition is bound for a surge in popularity, and for that most Scottish of fashion statements - tartan...
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Imagine that you are clutching in your fist the stamp of your grandest ambition. Imagine raising your fist into the air and bringing it down...
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I had planned to write about Arbroath Smokies, but with the news this past week focusing mainly on the dramatic forthcoming budget cuts thro...
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These were also taken in Polin, but you can see lambs all over Scotland in the spring. It is one of my favourite sights, these gleaming whit...
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It’s been a while since I’ve done a giveaway! With Mothering Sunday coming up, I was thrilled to hear from fellow blogger Tracey, a local E...
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The bleached rocks of Gullane Beach can’t be said to loom or even intrigue from a distance. It is only when you get up close that the textur...
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As I approached the building that is home to Glasgow’s prized Burrell Collection, my first thought was that I was about to waste precious ho...
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It was one of those days that seemed to create itself moment by moment, like tracks being laid down before an approaching train. With the we...
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No sooner had the clocks moved forward than the last vestiges of winter flung themselves at the residents of Scotland. The blizzards swept t...
Favourite Scotland Blogs & Sites
- Allotment 2 Kitchen
- Autofocused Photo blog
- Blue sky Scotland
- Cairn in the Mist
- CraftyGreenPoet
- Craigwell Cottage blog
- Dancing Beastie
- Dave Gifford in Shetland
- Edinburgh City Libraries blog
- Edinburgh Day by Day
- Edinburgh Spotlight
- Edinburgh Whisky Blog
- Edinburgh's Dark Side
- Elgol: Photo Hebrides
- Fergie & Fife
- Five Precious Things
- Gavin Macfie's highland adventures
- Glasgow Daily Photo
- GlenTrek
- Gone to Scotland
- Green Isle of the Great Deep
- Highland Happenings
- Islay Blog
- Journeys to Scotland
- Life on a Small Island (Orkneys)
- Life on the Hill
- Light and Dark
- Linda Mellor's Photographic Blog
- Love of Scotland
- Must Visit Scotland
- Natural Scotland
- Nordic Blackbird
- North Light
- Occasional Scotland
- Painting on the Edge
- Pebble Heart
- Photo Hebrides
- Photogenic Scotland
- Photographer Kim Ayres
- Raw Food in Scotland
- Scotland in the Gloaming
- Scotland Landscapes
- Scottish Ancenstry
- Scottish Borders
- Scottish Poetry Library
- Scottish Roundup
- The Edinburgh Blog
- The Good Soup Guide
- The Scottish Lemon
- Trampy and the Tramp (Curry!)
- Traveling Savage
- Uist Lady
- Wandering Gecko
- Wee bit of cooking
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- Touching the sky at Stirling Castle
- Smoke up my kilt
- A drive through the Scottish Borders
- Balnakeil: Death of a Highwayman
- The tablet has landed
- The bleak beauty of the far north
- Be free, my pretties, FREE!
- Get it on, Bang a Gong (or not)
- Lauriston Castle Part 1: The Gardens
- In which I begin the great Scottish tablet giveaway
- A magical life in the Faerie Glen
- New lamb waking up, feeding
- Storm brewing at Polin Beach
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