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A Weekend of The Arts
‘Hominin’ Book Launch (Neil R McAdam) & ‘Interstellar 10’ (Roger Sayer) This weekend I was lucky enough to take Dearest Son to a couple of events: It was our first book launch event we’d ever been to and I was keen to take DS (that’s Dearest Son) as I want him to experience new things,…
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Come See An Annual Gardening Show With Me
I went to get some floral inspiration and I’d love to share it with you. At the weekend, Saturday 23th August to be precise, I dragged Dearest Son along to the Nairn annual gardening show to have a look and hopefully get some inspiration for my gardens. I am now convinced my veg will always…
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Highland Games in Nairn, Scotland 2025
I had a day out in the town of Nairn for their Highland Games day which also included the ‘showies’! They say there were more than 10,000 people there on the day itself. The main arena has a lot going on at the same time including junior athletics events, pipe bands, highland dancing competitions, tug…
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First Holiday in 5 Years
To say it got off to a bumpy start would be an understatement. Apart from the car going in to the garage 5 days before our departure – we had a few other issues to contend with. We had been in the car 20 minutes when I realised I’d left the spending money at home.…
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Easter trip to Brodie Castle
I love going to Brodie Castle and Easter 2025 was a great time to do it again! For Easter Sunday, I wanted to go on a picnic with Dearest Son, even though the weather wasn’t the greatest. We have a ‘sort of’ tradition of going to Brodie Castle at Easter. I say sort of because…
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A Woodland Walk
In photographs. In today’s episode of the podcast I take you with me on a woodland walk so we can have a little bit of quiet and relaxation after all the noise and activity of Christmas and New Year. In the episode I told you I’d be showing you the photos from that day so…
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Christmas comes to town
The little beach town of Nairn had it’s Christmas market and lights switch on last Saturday and it was quite the turn-out. This must be one of the highlights of the year for many people but for very different reasons. The local shops are all open, the stall holders turn up to sell their wares,…
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Underwhelmed by our pumpkin picking adventure
We went to the Cawdor Pumpkin Patch but weren’t too impressed. Now before I dive in, I want to admit, I could be completely wrong. Maybe what we saw and experienced is what we were supposed to. Maybe our expectations were just a little too high. Maybe if Dearest Son was 3, it would have…
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Petrol-head heaven – Wheels of Nairn 2024
Saturday 21st Sep saw the annual Wheels of Nairn taking place for 2024. A place for owners of fantastic cars and motorbikes to show their vehicles as well as various stalls and of course, the local pipe band. I took many many photos so I’ll try and narrow it down. The weather wasn’t as good…
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Bargains, organising and plans!
I’ve had a pretty busy day and I’d like to show you what I’ve done so far and let you in on what is next. We have a place not far from us which is next to the local recycling centre, i.e. dump, which sells stuff people don’t want anymore. It used to be really…
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Nairn Highland Games for 2024
Saturday 17th August was the big day when Nairn held it’s annual Highland Games for the 147th time! At the risk of sounding like a made-for-tv movie, I couldn’t help feeling proud to be Scottish! This is one of those posts where it’s better shown in photographs rather than in words but there are a…
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Looking for garden and craft inspiration?
If you are looking for a little inspiration, allow me to share the Nairn & District Gardening Club 42nd Annual Show for 2024. I managed a very quick look around the show this year as I was a little later than I had intended. I must admit, even though I don’t enter competitions like this,…
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