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Feb 4

For reasons best known to itself, nature decided on Monday it would pull the clouds over its head and play the weather equivalent of a duvet day. Wet, windy, wild, and unceasing.

Monday was my birthday. I go up and down with birthdays: some years I plan meticulously and make sure it’s “birthday worthy”. Other years I keep thinking I will, and then it sneaks up on me, and I have no plans.

I feel quite pressured about birthdays sometimes. As if I’m required to respond to “what are your plans?” by laying out blueprints to the world’s greatest weekend.

This year I didn’t do much. I took the day off work and felt quite bored (actually wished I was working). I tried to read three different books and finished none. I baked some, but wasn’t super thrilled with how it turned out. I went for a new walk by a loch (that was my favourite part of the day). I started a puzzle and then went to bed.

I felt a little pressure as if I wasn’t having a “proper” birthday: but when I went out for my walk I realised ever since moving up to the island, just about every weekend feels like a birthday.

I sleep in. I go for long walks. I get sunshine and mist and rainbows and snow and all the weathers. I make good food. I try new whisky. I sit by the fire and read. I get together with friends for dinner or drinks. I travel. I write. I rest.

All the things I used to make a great effort to do for a birthday weekend - and then I’d head back home.

On reflection this was one of my best birthdays ever: because I live here and there’s no pressure anymore.

So today, as if in apology for yesterday’s behaviour, the sun came out and I wandered around a castle and saw rainbows and took a random ferry ride and saw more rainbows and did a little shopping and treated myself to dinner and finished a book and came home to read by the fire….

Just another lovely birthday day.

#isleofmull #duartcastle #islandlife #walking #rainbows

Feb 2

We had sunshine today!!

I had some work to do so I sat on the sofa with the laptop this morning while the rain fell and the skies remained stolidly grey. But the weather app hinted at sun after about 1pm so I kept a careful lookout and lo and behold the clouds began to move away.

By then I was done or close enough, so I drove into Tobermory and went along the lighthouse walk. Bright blue skies…green ivy… flowing cold water (the best in the world)…white lighthouse… it was just beautiful.

Happy Sunday ❤️☀️✨

Feb 1

Feb 1

Spent the week in Glasgow and baaaaasically “buildings and food” sums it up pretty well. I do love being in the city (for a visit) and I make the most of things like KFC being open to 4am (I mean not for me but it’s the principle of the thing, it’s basically always open) and walking past a Taco Bell and deciding to get that, and coffee and cinema and of course dentists and car servicing too.

It’s all good and I thoroughly enjoyed it… and now I’m sitting on the sofa with my new boot socks from Costco (amazing) and a beef stew in the slow cooker and about to head out for a walk past zero neon lights. Happiness all round.

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