Waterloo Monument Walk, Dumfries and Galloway

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…

Snowy Dog Walk

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 …

Clay Shooting at Westlands Country Park

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…

Heavenly Desserts Edinburgh Review

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…