Places
Last week Scott and I jetted off to Spain to visit family. I hadn't realised how much I needed a good dose of sunshine until I felt it on my skin. Spanish residents were wearing jumpers and coats but it was the perfect temperature for me :) And we
Craft
Our Christmas tree, Limmy II, keeps on giving. After whittling our butter knife I had enough wood left over for a small project. Since we were visiting Scott's Nan in Spain this month, I made a wooden spoon for her herbs and spices. I remembered to take a
Life
A life lately post means one thing. It's the end of January – already! Time has flown by. I turned thirty two this month and celebrated with a trip to the Designs of the Year exhibition in London, Mexican food at home with a bottle of Prosecco and a
Garden
The garden may be looking a bit swampy at the moment but the birds are making up for a lack of anything else going on. Temperatures dropped so our feeder has been busier than usual. When it's cold I tend to go to town with fatcake, meal worms
Life
I turned thirty two this month, woooo! Our lovely friends had a bunch flowers delivered to say happy birthday. Since the garden has zero colour at the moment I thought I'd share some photos of them instead, they're beautiful. Much nicer than our swampy looking garden
Iceland
Seeing the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) in Iceland was a bit of a dream come true. They've been high up on my bucket list for a long time. Several factors affect the odds of seeing them: location, cloud cover, sun activity, time of year and light pollution. There
Craft
Sound the new hobby klaxon! I recently dipped a toe in whittling, on a spoon carving workshop at the Making Winter retreat. Guided by Alistair from The Woodlanders, we spent two hours carving spoons with an axe and a knife. After getting over the initial fear of making a wrong
Garden
You know a friend is a good one when they text first thing in the morning to tip you off about frozen cobwebs. Overnight we'd had a hard frost; it had settled on every last strand. So of course I was out there with my camera like a
Hiking
On New Year's Eve eve, we semi-reluctantly emerged from our Christmas cocoon of chocolate, cheese and glowing tree lights. Time to get some proper exercise! It was a pretty epic day to be in the forest though because the fog was incredibly thick. Then the sun started to
Life
Christmas is only five days away so I decided it's time to write my last post of 2016 and log off. I'm going to take a break from internetting to enjoy the holidays and feast on Christmas food. Eating Most of my foodie focus this month
Life
At the end of November Scott asked me, "When are we going to get our Christmas tree?" To which I replied, "December 1st of course!" Christmas trees are only up for one month out of twelve so I want to get as much tree time as
Iceland
Reykjavik Erupts was a bit of a last minute tour booking. We called in at one of the tourist information centres and booked it the day before and I'm so glad we did because it turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip. Our group
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