It’s been 9 months since the last episode of this long-ass tale, but in those 9 months, a lot has happen. When I last posted, we had yet to make an offer on a house but we’d viewed three houses over the course of two weekends. The first house was a former coach house in … More Moving to Scotland (in a pandemic) – Episode 6
It’s 2022 and my sporadic series documenting my move to Scotland continues on. Whilst there has been progress over the past few months since I last blogged, we still quite haven’t made it over the line in terms of our overall goals. We are in a much better position going into 2022 then we were … More Moving to Scotland (in a pandemic) – Episode 5
Languishing. That’s apparently the word of the year and it totally sums up my 2021 so far. My last proper update was at the end of 2020 (not including my watch purchases), and I ended the blog post with the fact we’d had two offers on our house in England. And then the first offer … More Moving to Scotland (in a pandemic) – Episode 4
The last time I posted was 7 months ago, and it simultaneously feels like nothing and everything has happened. Episode 2 of “Moving to Scotland in a pandemic” ended with me about to start my new job but struggling to get the whole house selling and buying process started. So a quick recap of June-December: … More Moving to Scotland (in a pandemic) – Episode 3
Almost 2 months ago, I resigned from my job in order to move 450 miles north to Scotland. A reasonable person might have assumed we’d be a quite a significant way through selling our house, that we’d have put a bid in for our dream house, or that we’d be surrounded by our worldly possessions … More Moving to Scotland (in a pandemic) – Episode 2
Part of the reason why I haven’t posted on here this year is because I haven’t been able to share what’s been happening in my life. It’s quite hard to know what to write when I haven’t wanted to give away the huge plans that Husband and I have. Yep, we’re moving 400 miles from … More Moving to Scotland (in a pandemic)
Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities, and it’s even more special when it’s covered in Christmas lights. I had daydreamed about visiting this year with Husband but ran out of time before Christmas. And then out of nowhere, I was called to the Scottish capital for a work event which would require an overnight … More Edinburgh at Christmas
Islay is stunningly beautiful, and we both would have fallen in love with it regardless, but the main reason we visited was for the whisky. There are currently 8 distilleries on the island, although there have been many more ‘lost’ over the years. Islay whisky is so very strong and very distinctive, all down to … More Islay – The Distilleries
Once I’d figured out where we were going to stay on Islay for Husband’s surprise birthday trip, I then had to figure out how to get there. The first leg of the journey was to Glasgow which was the easy part. From there, there are a few options but realistically for our schedule, we could … More Islay – The Logistics
For the past year, I have been planning a surprise trip for Husband’s big birthday (I won’t reveal the number – let’s pretend it was 30). He was not involved in any of the planning and I managed to keep the secret all the way up until our final leg of the trip, so honestly, … More Islay – Where We Stayed
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