Everything is going to be alright

Towards the end of the summer term, in late June, we put on our masks and headed across the Forth to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. We packed picnic lunches to have on The Meadows, followed by coffee and danishes from Soderberg, and spent the afternoon in Modern One. It was a long […]

Summer Holidays

This summer has been rather amazingly gorgeous in Scotland. Following a delayed and very cold spring , the uncharacteristically sunny days were a welcome treat. After last year’s gloomy wet non-summer, we felt that the only thing that would make our Scottish existence tenable in future would be to escape somewhere sunny for a week […]

Growing

Hi friends. In the silent months since I last really told you about what we have been up to we have just been muddling through. The lethargy of growing another person has probably made for a rather dull time for the wee guy as I have not been up to much on the weekends since […]

Lake Sojourn

At last our longed for Autumn holiday in the Lake District was upon us. I took a couple of days off work beforehand to let the little one have some at-home time as well as he seems to be more of a home body every day – and it seems hard on him to have […]

While the Cat’s Away

This summer the Doctor took flight for parts very southern for a month and the wee one and I had to keep ourselves occupied on the weekends in his absence. We had a lot of happy adventures. The time passed rather quickly in reflection, though as we counted the days it did sometimes seem like […]

Friends and Farewells

We were lucky in August to have a visit from our dear friends Julia and Jon from the US. Their visit flew by, but we were glad to show them St Andrews at its sunny gorgeous best (a rare sight this summer!). Here we were perched on the famous pier. It was Edinburgh Fringe Festival time – […]

Olympic Odyssey

Like most of the country, we eagerly anticipated the advent of the London 2012 Olympics. We managed to secure a few tickets for the odd event, and took an unprecedented ten days off work and other responsibilities to make our own Olympic Odyssey journey south…It was a bit of a whirlwind…and the dust is only […]

Family Wedding Time

June was wedding month. Sadly, our circumstances did not allow us to jet off to Michigan to join our lovely friends Tim and Ruthann on the occasion of their flowery country nuptials. However, since we had missed a few wider-family events in the past couple of years, it was grand to be able to don […]

May Highlights

It seems that the weekends have flown by this month. Summer is not really making much of an appearance. Though from last year, we are not expecting too much! But we have managed the odd outing, including a trip to the bird reserve with friends (which involved some batman antics on the beach and […]

London Town

Earlier this month, we ventured south to visit the grandparents and take in some of the sights and sounds of London. This was our first trip the the capital since returning to the UK in 2010, and the first time Kaz would remember his adventures. Not unsurprisingly, it was so much easier to spend time […]