All the beauty of Glendaruel in October 2024

We had booked a trip to Isle of Skye for the end of September but when John's health took a dip we cancelled and decided it would be...

The last month has been truly awful. We only really feel able to write about it now due to an slight improvement in how John is doing....

After Amber had gone home we still had a couple of days to ourselves, so after a bit of housework and recipe testing on Sunday we headed...

After our trip to Italy in April, we thought long and hard about where to go next. Neither of us likes the Mediterranean heat in the...

Third Wednesday Date Day and we headed to Dunoon. I told my colleague, Sai, our plan and she grinned and raised her eyebrows and said...

John: On top of two hospital visits in the last month the last week, since returning from leamington, has been pretty stressful. 26th...

All the beauty of September in Glendaruel 2024

So that we can try and see everyone, on each trip we have been alternating a visit to Liz's family and friends in Lincoln with John's...

Liz doesn't like whisky - at all, but John does. Where we live is not that far from one of the best whisky producing areas in Scotland,...

Well, just two months after his last round of chemo and John's getting out of hospital today (Thursday 8th Aug) after a four day stay due...

Neither of us are in good physical fitness so all day hikes or bike rides are not really practical or fun. We are trying to get out and...

In one of our weeks up in the North, late June 2023, the weather had been pretty fair during the week but there was one particular day...

Kathryn, Liz's friend from Nuclear Medicine days, made another trip to see us in June. For our first day we headed for a little cycle...

As well as the bird spotting, also very exciting has been several visits from a pine marten. Something we had never seen before in real...

On Wednesdays Liz doesn't work, so that's another day for some bucket list trips. This time, it was the paddle steamer Waverley which is...

Liz has been trawling the internet for local events in and around Dunoon - let's find out what's going on on our front doorstep and join...

Wednesdays are Liz's day off in the week and it's always good to have a plan, especially in the summer, to make the most of this time we...

John: A CT scan was planned after the last chemotherapy session and booked for about 10 days later, so I headed off to Vale of Leven...

The outside of the house has been on hold for the winter but now spring has arrived and rapidly become what we hope is a good hot summer,...