A snowy spaniel - and doesn't she look like she's enjoying it?  Tilly always likes going out and playing in the snow.  So when we had another flutter of snow she got stuck into the drifts as soon as she could! Although she does usually like to wear her funky orange Equafleece jumper, I thin…

As you probably know by now, I run a different travel based site called Visit Dumfries & Galloway. One of the recent articles I wrote was about our walk to Waterloo Monument near New Abbey. You can read the whole "professional" post here, but I had a few extra fun pictures so I wanted…

This winter has been really weird weather wise - it's been really wild and just grey.  Grey skies with grey clouds and worst of all- flat grey light!  However, we finally got a bit of real winter weather with some hard frost.  Even better, there was wonderful winter light! To take advantage of …

Last weekend I dusted off the ole shotgun and we headed to the newly refurbished and upgraded Westlands Country Park in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.  As a local, I've been to Westlands a lot in previous years but this was definitely a different experience and the first time I've had m…

Last night I was lucky enough to be invited to the launch event of a very exciting opening - Heavenly Desserts' new location in Fountain Park, Edinburgh! Heavenly Desserts is an insta-heaven, with plenty of pastel, flower walls and marble-print table tops.  I can see this being the aesthetic lo…