My Highland Haven
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Saturday 28th October 2023 Walk Tick Points: Skelbo Woods is a walk we’ve done a few times over the years when we’ve come up here on holiday. Whilst it’s a very pleasant woods, it’s not usually a go to for a dog walk because: A. It’s not a very long walk (very easy to complete
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Sunday 22nd October 2023 This turned out to be a disaster of a walk but let’s start at the beginning. After four days of storm and two days of amber weather warnings, we woke up on Sunday morning to blazing sunshine and clear blue skies. As Saturday was accompanied by 60mph winds and torrential rain,
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Sunday 15th October 2023 Following our plan of local easy walks, following clearly marked footpaths, we headed up the coast to Golspie. We parked in the Golspie Beach Car Park just off the high street. Like many car parks up here, you’re ‘invited to pay’. This means that although you’re not legally required to pay,
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We’ve been here six weeks now; we’ve had our first real storm, the days are getting noticeably shorter and the shine is definitely starting to wear off. I’m hoping I’ll look back on this in a few months or even a few weeks and laugh at my silly English up tight attitude and initial teething
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Monday 23rd October 2023 When you live in the south of England and tell people you want to move to the Scottish Highlands, the first thing the more negative people tend to comment on is the weather. “It’s too cold” or “it’s too wet” – ironically enough, these are often the same people who then
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Saturday 30th September 2023 For weekend number two in our new home, we knew we had to crack on with the ever growing number of household jobs and DIY tasks. As lovely as last weekend was and exploring Tarbat Ness Lighthouse, we had to get on with house stuff this weekend. On the other hand,
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Saturday 23rd September 2023 After a week of unpacking, moving furniture around, arranging utilities and getting to grips with our new house, we decided to treat ourselves to a nice weekend dog walk. Yes, there’s still so much to do in the house but it’s starting to feel like we can live in it for
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After 6 years of talking about it and six years of boring our friends and family by incessantly talking about it, we finally did it. We sold our home in our comfortable Sussex town and moved 650 miles to the north east coast of the Scottish Highlands. Along with our three pups, we now have
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Why put off retirement dream just because we’ve still got jobs? I’m sure I’ll edit this when I’ve got time (or the novelty of this blog will wear off quicker than you can say ‘who still creates a blog these days?’) For now, I’d like to catalogue our move to our new home. Between us,
My Highland Haven 