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  • Portlethen and vegan galette with friends

    Portlethen and vegan galette with friends

    We had a lovely afternoon with friends in Portlethen today. Portlethen is a small village about 7 miles south of Aberdeen. It was originally a fishing village and there’s an old harbour there where the fishing boats used to come and go. Today it is more like a satellite suburb of Aberdeen with lots of […]

    Rachel M

    January 16, 2022
    Journal
    Aberdeenshire, galette, litter, litter picking, Portlethen, Vegan
  • A hair cut, pea and mint soup recipe, and giant violins

    A hair cut, pea and mint soup recipe, and giant violins

    I had a bad haircut just before Christmas and couldn’t stand it any longer so today, on the spur of the moment, I went in search of a haircut. All the women reading my blog will understand the impossibility of my quest: one does not simply walk into a hair salon on a Saturday afternoon […]

    Rachel M

    January 15, 2022
    Journal
    bass, hair, haircut, instruments, orchestra, pea soup, peas, recipe, school, violin
  • Booster shot and back to school

    Booster shot and back to school

    I had my booster shot on Saturday and that completely wiped me out for the rest of the weekend. I’m only just feeling better today. I got a half dose of Moderna after having had two jabs of Pfizer. I had a similarly bad reaction after my second Pfizer dose with fever, aches, headache, and […]

    Rachel M

    January 10, 2022
    Journal
    booster, covid, Daniel, Kids, Moderna, school, virus
  • New Year’s Day 2022

    New Year’s Day 2022

    We all got wet suits for Christmas so we decided to christen them at the beach in Aberdeen today. That’s Daniel and Elizabeth in the centre of this next photo venturing in together. I’ve never swum in a wet suit before but I have done some winter swimming and I can tell you the wet […]

    Rachel M

    January 1, 2022
    Journal
    2022, Aberdeen, beach, New Year's Day, swimming, wetsuit
  • Hogmanay and Elizabeth’s 12th birthday

    Hogmanay and Elizabeth’s 12th birthday

    It’s Hogmanay and Elizabeth’s birthday today. The years tick by and although there are big global events – like the pandemic – we still go through all the same motions each year. Elizabeth is 12 and had a lovely celebration at home with two of her school friends. Elizabeth was such a cute little baby. […]

    Rachel M

    December 31, 2021
    Journal
    12, birthday, Elizabeth, Hogmanay, New Year, photos
  • Scottish wildcat

    Scottish wildcat

    Today we think we saw a Scottish wildcat. This is another very elusive creature whose population has been decimated over the past couple of hundred years. It is critically endangered and although it once roamed all of the UK it is now found only in northern and eastern Scotland. If it is a Scottish wildcat […]

    Rachel M

    December 26, 2021
    Journal
    cat, Christmas, hydropower, Kingussie, Loch Gynack, power, renewables, Scotland, wildcat, wildlife
  • Christmas 2021

    Christmas 2021

    Christmas in the Scottish Highlands is turning out to be one of the best Christmases we’ve had. I even saw a pine marten for the first time ever. These are very elusive creatures whose numbers have dwindled over the past couple of centuries due to hunting for their fur, habitat loss, and predation control. I […]

    Rachel M

    December 25, 2021
    Journal
    2021, Christmas, Creag Bheag, Highlands, Kingussie, pine marten, pipe band, reindeer, santa
  • Ruthven Barracks, Kingussie

    Ruthven Barracks, Kingussie

    It snowed last night so it’s looking like a white Christmas for us this year, hooray! It was a lovely sunny day today so we walked to Ruthven Barracks. On a natural mound, a stone’s throw from the village of Kingussie is Ruthven Barracks. There was once a wooden castle here in the 1200s. It […]

    Rachel M

    December 24, 2021
    Journal
    Highlands, Jacobite Rising, Kingussie, Ruthven Barracks, Scotland
  • Creag Bheag, Kingussie

    Creag Bheag, Kingussie

    We did a hill walk up Creag Bheag today. We were lucky to have views in all directions from the top and it was so calm with not even the whisper of wind at the top. The landscape has been gloriously silvery all day again today and it really felt like we’d stepped into the […]

    Rachel M

    December 22, 2021
    Journal
    Creag Bheag, frost, Highlands, hill, Kingussie, photos, Scotland, snow, walk, winter solstice
  • Gynack Burn, Kingussie

    Gynack Burn, Kingussie

    We made it to the highlands! I’ve got holiday cancellation PTSD and before each holiday now I get paranoid that it’ll be canceled too. The night before we left I woke up at 2am thinking I’d lost my sense of taste and smell. I went downstairs and tasted some salt, felt reassured that it tasted […]

    Rachel M

    December 21, 2021
    Journal
    frost, Highlands, hoar frost, Kingussie, photos, Scotland, travel
  • Omicron land

    Omicron land

    We’re living in Omicron land here with the new variant taking over as the most dominant in Scotland as of today. Things change so rapidly. Last month the UK was in the best position in Europe to manage the virus over the winter. Then Omicron arrived. I’m not so worried about getting sick although I’d […]

    Rachel M

    December 17, 2021
    Journal
    Christmas, covid, Omicron, pandemic, Scotland, UK, virus
  • Things that bring us joy

    Things that bring us joy

    My work has released a happy holidays video where those of us who want to participate, hold up a sign of something that has brought us joy over the past 12 months. Lots of things have brought me joy this year and aside from the obvious one of my family, the one that comes top […]

    Rachel M

    December 16, 2021
    Journal
    Creative Force, happy holidays, joy, wild swimming
  • The New Zealand betrayal of science

    I follow Richard Dawkins on Twitter. I don’t read all his Tweets but one recently caught my attention because it mentioned the “New Zealand betrayal of science”. I naturally took a closer look and also stole his click-bate words for my title. It turns out he’s written a letter to the Royal Society of New […]

    Rachel M

    December 12, 2021
    Journal
    curriculum, Mãori, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, science
  • A sockcessful national dance exam

    A sockcessful national dance exam

    Elizabeth had her pre-bronze National Highland dance exam today. She performed The Lilt and she thinks it went well. I took this recording before the exam. She won’t get her results until next year. When she was getting ready this morning she informed me that the teachers told her last Monday her socks were too […]

    Rachel M

    December 12, 2021
    Journal
    Highland Dance, National exam, The Lilt
  • Cat wheel

    Cat wheel

    We got Victoria a cat wheel for exercise because she’s turning into a fat fatty. At first, she was a bit scared of the wheel and wouldn’t go near it. But slowly we’ve been training her to use it using food as an incentive since she loves her food. Yesterday for the first time and […]

    Rachel M

    December 11, 2021
    Journal
    cat, cat wheel, exercise, pets, Victoria, wheel
  • Provost Skene’s House and the Christmas markets

    Provost Skene’s House and the Christmas markets

    We walked into town to check out the Christmas markets today. It’s nice to see them up and running again after the very quiet Christmas we had last year. Marischal College (the building in this next photo) was as stunning as always in the afternoon sun. The ice-skating rink is there again but we didn’t […]

    Rachel M

    December 5, 2021
    Journal
    Aberdeen, Christmas markets, Museum, photos, Provost Skene's House
  • Eosinophilic keratitis in cats

    Eosinophilic keratitis in cats

    Poor Victoria has been diagnosed with an eye condition called eosinophilic keratitis. It apparently only affects cats and horses and the cause is unknown but they think it might be due to the feline herpes virus. I took her to the vet last Saturday after noticing cloudiness in her eyes. She didn’t seem bothered by […]

    Rachel M

    December 1, 2021
    Journal
    cats, eye, eyes, keratitis, vet
  • Snow and storm Arwen

    Snow and storm Arwen

    The first snow of the season arrived last Friday. We didn’t get a huge amount in Aberdeen but enough for me to get excited and for it to look Christmassy. I went for a bike ride on Sunday and this was the scene. On Friday night we got hit by Storm Arwen which was fierce […]

    Rachel M

    November 29, 2021
    Journal
    Aberdeen, allotment, bike path, Highland Dance, photos, snow, Storm Arwen, windy
  • Our animal friends

    Our animal friends

    Several months ago I bought a lemongrass plant which I thought would be nice in curry. However, Victoria has taken a liking to the plant and has absolutely shredded it. It’s the first thing she goes to in the morning when she wakes up, even before her food bowl. Last weekend we made some birdfeeders […]

    Rachel M

    November 23, 2021
    Journal
    bin cage, bird feeder, cat, DIY, hamster, lemongrass, pets, photos
  • Coding in MC DiamondFire

    Coding in MC DiamondFire

    Daniel has been discussing maths and physics with Ben but not for schoolwork, for Minecraft! He’s got really into coding in Minecraft and has developed a game within the game which involves, among other things, throwing special blocks called slime blocks and watching them bounce. For this he needed vectors. This is a great example […]

    Rachel M

    November 21, 2021
    Minecraft
    code, coding, Daniel, DiamondFire, Minecraft, Tutorial
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