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Kitchen Fail – beware YouTube recipes!
I like to experiment in the kitchen as well as the garden but sometimes they don’t work out too well so I’ll be more careful about YouTube recipes from now on! I’d made a lovely dinner – some chicken noodley thing with various veg thrown in. I found a packet of some tasty spicy paste…
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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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The best laid plans – led to something else!
We had planned a beach trip this afternoon but we ended up doing something completely different. I had grand plans of taking Dearest Son to the beach for the afternoon and getting some wonderful shots of the North Sea to show you its splendour and maybe even a dolphin or two. We took the car…
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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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Bee Amazing Today!
I was taking photos in the garden of the flowers and fruits we are starting to see… But then I spotted something and I was inspired (who tutted?): So I made this: In case you are wondering, he appeared to be tasting the door to my diy polytunnel. I didn’t ask him why.
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I made a fairy garden!
Yes, I finally got it finished – we now have a fairy garden in the front and it lights up at night. You may remember a while ago I mentioned I’d started making some furniture for my fairy garden and I was having problems with the pond and the neighbour’s cat? Well the cat broke…
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We have a toad – and I’m too excited about it
This isn’t the post I was going to do for today but I’m so excited I had to share my news. We were up at the allotment today, working hard and I was pulling weeds at one side of the fence. The lady in the plot next door doesn’t weed much so it gets difficult.…
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We made it to the Nairn Show – we enjoyed it but not without concerns
It was a scorching hot day on Saturday 27th July which was when the Nairn show was on so we decided to go along to it. It’s a farmers show so lots of animals, smells, noises and interesting things to look at, but something did concern me. I will be putting a video together which…
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One day in a photo gallery
I did a few things yesterday, from picking fruit, walking the dog and getting swooped by some seriously aggressive seagulls so I thought I’d share some of it with you. Firstly, the garden. There have been a lot of summer raspberries which have been great and I am finally getting bees visiting the garden. I…
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#Bring back the 80s
Can I claim that hashtag please as I would actually like to bring back the 80s! I never thought I’d say something like that. I’m not one for reminiscing you see. I’ve heard it said that those who focus on the future experience anxiety while those who focus on the past experience depression so I…
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Daily Prompt #8: Dogs or Cats?
I haven’t done many of these daily prompt thingys but when I saw this I felt compelled to answer for a couple of reasons and one of them is war. I have been a cat person all my life. Grew up with them, had 2 when I lived alone etc etc and now not only…
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