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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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Scotland was first again!
Did you know the first municipal fire service in the world was established in Edinburgh in 1824? In Edinburgh at the time, the wooden buildings were very close to each other which meant if there was a fire, it spread quickly. Some folk tried to be equipped at home by having fire buckets and if…
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2 Plot visits: Potatoes, Pheasant Drama and Prepping for Winter
I managed 2 trips to the plot over the last couple of days which I’m delighted about. We have been working to get the last of the potatoes out and weed the bay at the same time. We are really lucky to have manure (and woodchip) delivered to the allotment site, so the plan is…
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Growing tobacco in Scotland
Another garden experiment and this one has made my husband very happy! We all know the tobacco we buy is not just tobacco – even if we don’t know what else is actually in it or how the leaves were grown. I say all this as a non-smoker by the way. In fact, I can’t…
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Autumn clearing begins on the allotment
This has to be my favourite time of year for working on the allotment plot. Firstly, my beans are still doing great and producing like crazy. I’ve recently found a ‘new’ recipe for them which has led to everyone in the house eating them very happily (let me know if you want me to do…
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Propagating my aloe vera – maybe just in the nick of time
I noticed some baby aloe vera plants (pups) growing from my big mama plant and I left them for quite a long time. However, they got so big I decided to remove them the other day and grow them on. I dug my fingers down into the soil slightly and gently separated them from ‘Mama’,…
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Gardening in Scottish weather
I haven’t been up to the allotment much this week as the weather has been so bad and we seem to have allocated Sunday as a day to go up regardless of the weather. I told Hubby it’s my ‘outdoor church’. When we arrived, Dearest Son stayed in the car and I went to check…
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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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Watching ‘Outlander’ as a Highlander
I’ve heard about the Outlander books and associated tv show but it wasn’t something I had followed – until now. I bought the first season dvd at a second hand place we go to regularly, thinking if I didn’t like it at least it hadn’t cost me much. But I do like it. I like…
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Finally transplanting tomatoes and cucumbers into polytunnel
Thanks to the great Scottish weather we’ve had for the last few weeks, my plants are really suffering but I’ve finally managed to get some tomatoes and a few ill-looking cucumbers transplanted into the polytunnel on the plot. I’ve used the string method, where you tie the string to a bar at the top of…
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Safety on Scottish roads
Last week when at the allotment, we were aware of a number of sirens and blue flashing lights on the main road, not far from the plot. It’s a busy stretch of road so that is quite a regular thing but it was the number of sirens which made me think ‘that’s a bad one’.…
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Daily Prompt #5 Have you ever been camping?
I’ve been camping quite a lot over the years although not recently. Not long after we met, my husband and I went wild camping and in total spent a wonderful couple of weeks living on various beaches on the West coast of Scotland. And I loved it. I can honestly say, going to sleep with…
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