Summer Holidays Yey!

coachman’s cottage, melfort village
Originally uploaded by nodwah

Here’s us, a couple of weekends ago at Melfort Village which is possibly my favourite place in the whole world. It’s a timeshare village on the West Coast near Oban. Now don’t you go screwing up your nose you snob! This is not like the timeshares in Spain or [...]

tablet

tablet
Originally uploaded by nodwah
this photo is a bit blurred as I’m just about to pass out in a sugar coma.
Hey I thought you said you were on Weightwatchers?
I make the trad Scottish sweetie to my nana’s recipe and I have to say without bragging, that it’s the best ever. So much so that I’m going [...]

Quick baked sweet potato lunch

I’ve recently come to my senses about my weight: I’m over 40 and it’s only going to get harder to stay in shape (or even get into shape). So I’ve gone and joined Weightwatchers. I’ve never been one to obsess about my weight and through my 20s and 30s I’ve been fit and healthy, doing [...]

Strawberry tower

Strawberry tower

Originally uploaded by nodwah

This is my homemade strawberry tower.
Very easy to make, take 3 pots of different sizes. Put a brick or two longways inside the biggest pot and fill around it with compost. Take the next sized pot and stand this on top of the brick(s). Fill more compost around the second pot. [...]

Poppy

Poppy
Originally uploaded by nodwah

I’m pretty sure I though I was buying ‘patty’s plum’ but it’s turned out this peachy salmon-pink colour.
Never mind, it’s stunningly gorgeous and the flower has lasted five days.
Look at those gorgeous crinkled petals as they are opening they make me think of an unmade bed that I’d love to just snuggle [...]

It’s not always raining in Scotland

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Originally uploaded by nodwah

Croy Shore with the Isle of Arran in the distance.