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Salsa! Zumba! Shinty! Sheep!
I love to dance, but it hasn’t been the easiest hobby to maintain here in rural north-west Scotland. For the size of the population, we have a great range of facilities and activities on offer, but...
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I’m a good girl
Hello Blogosphere, I have missed you! There’s no procrastinating and social media addiction here, no sirree. This post is an update on how I’ve been busy-not-going-to-work in the last fortnight. If it...
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Three new things making me happy this week, Part I: Signs of Spring
I was writing a post which started off with me whining about how hard it is doing yoga in the wet, cold, dark tail-end of winter, when the Highlands caught me out with glorious spring. Okay, it is way...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: A Day in My Life
Serendipity! I logged on to do an Easter photo post and discovered the photo challenge in my Reader. Once a week, I leave home about 9am, drive for nearly an hour north and west, help walk the...
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Easter gym bunny
As if…but it is true that I have just been with my husband to a ‘gym induction’ we booked at the local leisure centre. Photo credit: www.h3performance.co.uk We’ve been talking on and off about our...
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First Cuckoos
The first cuckoo call of the year in our crofting township is usually heard on the 19th of April. There is something delightfully precise about this. I picture Mr and Mrs Cuckoo (or possibly the Gowks,...
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I heart Cromarty
At Easter, I at last spent a week in the oddly magical, or perhaps magically odd, Cromarty. Now you too can visit, via this photo post! I’ve wanted to stay there since the first day I walked round it,...
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Yoga classes from serene to circus
I’ve written here and here about my yoga teacher training course and starting to teach yoga classes. The temporary cover I’m doing keeps stretching out due to the horrible year my local yoga teacher...
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Winter relaxation
I’ve travelled hundreds and hundreds of miles in bad weather in the last couple of weeks. Mainly to do worthwhile stuff – teaching in remote rural primary schools, taking Son2 to his first ever piano...
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Mushroom stroganoff and a flying giant
Do you ever have days where you feel like a character in someone else’s novel? I had one at the start of this week. I felt slightly surreal from first thing in the morning, and the day was capped by a...
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