Killiehuntly estate is near Glenfeshie in the Cairngorms and includes a child-free farmhouse where you can stay and have your breakfast made for you, and a child-friendly cottage where you make your own food and fun. The latter of which I stayed in for two nights after our camping mini break. Good grief it’s beautiful, […]
Did you see Iggy Pop on tv the other week telling Graham Norton that he’s into collecting chairs? He puts it down to having gone from being super skint, having to sit on the floor of his apartment as he owned no chairs skint, to becoming a man who can and will buy chairs when […]
Last week it was my turn to run away to Scotland for a week to ignore technology and coalesce with the air, the lochs, the mountains and the trees. It started with three nights camping – glamping – by Loch Tay. Maybe one night too many for me, but only because the toilet cubicles were a […]
Yes it’s change-over day at Downing Street, with the old incumbents running round stuffing the very last of their belongings, including that little pile of small change and the coat hangers from the dry-cleaners, into bin bags while the new folks wait impatiently outside. Here is what the scene looked like when they moved in […]
Or, birthday part 1, because I also got plenty of gorgeous consumerist presents which I’ll share with you next post. This one however is about the lovely thee days I had back on the Scottish island of Eilean Shona, back in the off-grid cottage that was our home for an unbelievable month last summer. You […]