Portballintrae beach this morning

I am taking part in Hooked on at Hooked on Houses and Beautiful Life at The Inspired Room this week, as this week I am hooked on RELAXING. It has been a quiet week up at the cottage, with warm sunny weather for most of it. We don’t tend to travel too far when we…

Although we don’t over emphasise Santa in our house, he is still part of our Christmas traditions. However he doesn’t get the credit for the biggest gifts on Christmas Day – we give the main present ourselves! When the kids were smaller there was usually a visit from Santa to the church toddler group (usually…

Welcome to a new year in my world! Actually there is an ad on TV right now, with the song “Welcome to my world”, I can’t remember the product (so maybe not such a great advertising success) but it makes me smile when I hear it. New Year itself was a quiet event here. Our…