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 […]

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 […]

Early Summer in the Garden

According to good gardening wisdom, one should wait a full year in a new garden before doing anything to it. I am not sure that this advice extends to avoiding weeding, but so far my erratic health and the dreary weather have created a sense of inertia that has meant the poor garden has had […]

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 […]

Summer Visitors

A Scottish summer… The temperatures have not soared above 20degC very often, in fact they hover around the 15degC mark or below most days. The Haar has rolled in from the sea on many an afternoon, obliterating any view of the surrounding area from the house. The growing season is slow and in our experimental first-Fife-foray into […]

Happy Father’s Day – ish

I know, I am a little late. But last weekend we were so busy having a lovely time that I didn’t get on here to record…and then the week filled up with graduation events at the University and sadly I didn’t take any pics of that (note to self…all that lovely ancient pomp and ceremony […]

This Moment

{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Have a wonderful weekend. See other inspiring moments at Soule Mama.

Packing Up and Packing It In

This last weekend was a holiday again. And for once, Akira took Labor Day off work. Of course we spent most of our Kazuo-free hours packing up for the shipping day, which is tomorrow (arrrgh…are we ready? it is gonna be a long night I think). But during our family times, we got out and […]

Wardrobe Wednesday

It’s our penultimate week in St Louis and I’ve been cramming in favourite activities, which has given me little time for online reflection again. This morning we had to take Akira to a medical appointment out west. So our usual Wednesday visit to MOBOT had to be postponed. Which meant I kinda forgot about WW […]

This Moment

{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see. […]