Tag: photos
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Another day in St Andrews, the Caird Hall Gathering in Dundee and memories of Christchurch
They say you can’t visit St Andrews without running into someone you know and thus far this has proved true for us. Last weekend we ran into someone from Daniel’s school also attending the offer holder day. Yesterday Daniel and I were there again and the strangest of coincidences happened. I didn’t technically know the…
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Critters and a cathedral
We’re back in Aberdeen after a lovely 5-day break in Aviemore. Victoria came with us as always and although she meows the entire way in the car, once we’re there she seems to quite enjoy exploring a new place. Lucille the hamster went to Mrs Murray’s Cat and Dog home for boarding. We take her…
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Knitting with cables and photos from the weekend
Yesterday we went to Blairgowrie to have Elizabeth measured up for a new highland dance jacket at Piob Mhor, a shop that makes kilts and highland dance outfits. It was a gorgeous drive as Aberdeenshire is still covered in snow and the hills to the west were white. As we went south the snow gradually…
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Sledging at Duthie Park
I do love the snow. We had another snowy day today and Aberdeen is looking beautiful. We made the most of it and went sledging. There’s rain forecast for Sunday so it looks like it may disappear soon unfortunately. I got a video of a starling at the bird feeder this morning when it was…
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Finzean walk and shop
I think I’ve fully recovered now aside from being a bit snotty with a lingering cough. We made the most of a sunny, mild winter day today to go for a walk in the countryside. I chose Finzean because I wanted an excuse to visit the Finzean farm shop. We arrived at the farm shop…
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Street art, yule logs, and Christmas puddings
This week the local artist behind KMG painted the other wall on Deeside Way beneath Great Southern Road. She did the opposite wall for us a couple of years ago in 2022. I have always thought it would be nice to continue the theme along both sides of the path so this year we applied…
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Snowy Aberdeen and vintage tweed trousers
Winter has come to Aberdeen. I took this photo on my run on Monday. Since then it has snowed a bit each day. Here are photos from today’s run. We set our thermostat to 16C during the day so it sits at about 16C indoors. I don’t feel cold and if I did I’d just…
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A weekend in Angus
For the past two years around the time of Remembrance Day, Elizabeth has competed in the Forfar Highland Dancing competition. We make a weekend of it and spend a couple of nights in Angus and that’s what we did this weekend for the 3rd year running. The competition is always on a Sunday and takes…
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Photos of Lucille and Aberdeen
We never see our hamster Lucille unless we get up after midnight and sneak in for a peak. She’s very shy and only comes out when we’ve all gone to bed. However, today I freshened up her home and as part of that put in some new sprays which she loves. This enticed her out…
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Aurora, BioCafe, and wildlife photography
I hopped into bed just after 10pm last night and began scrolling social media where I discovered we were in the midst of a red alert aurora. I looked out the bedroom window and took this photo. Not bad for the middle of a city and quite a lot of cloud cover as you can…
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Falkland and the Pillars of Hercules bothy
We’re back in Aberdeen again after a lovely week’s break in Falkland staying at the Pillars of Hercules bothy. We’ve stayed here once before, back in 2019 and ever since I’ve been wanting to go back because we all enjoyed it so much. It’s a simple, rustic building on the edge of the forest and…
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East Lomond Hill and Maspie Den walk
5 years ago we walked up East Lomond Hill in a blizzard. It was December. It was cold and visibility was very poor. We couldn’t see far beyond the edge of the path and when we reached the top everything was white. I took this photo of Ben and the kids huddled together in front…
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Lost Loch Distillery and standing stones
I experienced a tasting session at the Lost Loch Distillery yesterday for a friend’s birthday. It was a wonderful experience. Lost Loch is very different to your average Scottish distillery because it’s not a traditional one with giant copper stills and they don’t actually make any whisky. They do produce two whisky products but they’re…
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Pigeon rescue, St Andrews, Rufflets, and antique lecture notes
We got back to Aberdeen today after a couple of nights in St Andrews. Daniel wanted to go to the university open day so we decided to make it a short family holiday. More on that later. Far more exciting right now is that not long after arriving back Victoria became obsessed with something behind…
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Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve
About 20 minutes south of Aberdeen by car along the coast is the Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve which hosts the largest seabird colony on the east coast of Scotland. In summer it is teeming with over 100,000 Guillemots, Razorbills, and Kittiwakes. We visited it today. Since it’s only March there were not very many birds. You…
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Hill of Fare
Cold frosty mornings often turn into bright sunny days in this part of the world which is what we got today. To make the most of the clear skies we walked up the Hill of Fare knowing we’d get some good views at the top and we weren’t disappointed. You can see in every direction…
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Spectra 2024 and a walk in the woods
It has been a dreich weekend but while others may complain I’ve rather liked it. The soft, gentle lighting is kinder to my eyes and it also meant the queue for Spectra (Aberdeen’s annual light festival) was shorter than last year so we actually got into it this time. Last year the queue was too…
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Aberdeen Town House and other photos
This week I had the pleasure of going into Aberdeen’s Town House, a civic building built in 1868-74 by architects Peddie and Kinnear. It is built in Scottish Baronial style which means it has a neo-gothic appearance and a roofline that resembles a castle more than a city town hall. The inside of the building…
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Snow day
If it’s going to be cold then there should be snow and snow we had in abundance today. What fun it is and so pretty. And we had such fun sledging down the hill at Duthie Park. We had the whole slope to ourselves too.
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Photos of Aberdeen
I took this photo of a man in a kilt washing windows a couple of weeks ago when walking into town with Elizabeth. Only in Scotland! Last night we went to a Christmas party at Ben’s work. We’ve had several frosty days and it took us around 10 minutes to scrape all the ice off…
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