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  • Wandering through my lens: Highlights of 2025

    Last year in December, struggling to think of a post, I decided to pull together and share some of my favourite pictures from the past year; many o them I have not shared before, or have only done briefly in an Instagram story. It struck me that this might be a nice tradition to start.…

  • My top books of 2025

    For the last two years I have been consistent in recommending 10 books each year, but this year I am a touch short, and for several reasons. Firstly, this year I tried to read my way through more of Diana Gabaldon but found it increasingly hard. The length of the books grew and grew, and…

  • One Week in Mexico City

    The business of the season has meant that it has taken me a bit more time than I hoped to pull together all of the pictures I took on my last international adventure, but I have finally managed it! The trip, as the title of this post makes clear, was to Mexico – a new…

  • A visit to Romsey Abbey

    Romsey is a charming, well-to-do town about 7 miles from Southampton Airport, in the south of England. The town centre offers a mix of lovely shops, restaurants and pubs on winding streets and lined with Tudor-style frontages. The River Test flows through the community and some stunning parks, and past a picturesque old mill.

  • Fife Coastal Path: Fairmont Hotel to the Old Course

    The last month or so of travel has meant that my efforts to maintain fitness levels dragged a bit, and so I selected a portion of the walk that was not too long but still tested me a bit: starting at the Fairmont Hotel and walking through St Andrews to the Old Course Hotel, where…

  • Adventures in Autumn colour

    Autumn and winter compete as my favourite seasons of the year, both for photography and life in general. There are few things that make me happier than a snowstorm and snow scape (see my post about Marblehead in snow). That said, the colours of autumn are just stunning, be they orange, red, gold, or anything…

  • Muir Woods National Monument

    As anyone who read my September Stories post may be aware, I was lucky enough recently to visit the San Francisco Bay area for work. I had one day off while I was there, and I was determined to visit Muir Woods, which I recalled as the absolute stand-out of a family trip to San…

  • A Story of September: my travels in Scotland and the USA

    For anyone who works in education, September is an unavoidably busy month, and this September was no exception. I hope you will accept this post as a solid explanation of why it has been the only one in some time – the weeks have gotten away from me. Not in the least because as now…

  • The Dùn walk, Aberfeldy

    As I have written about before about my affection for the area around Aberfeldy and Kenmore, and so it will come as no surprise that, during an unexpected long weekend, we decided to book two nights at Moness Resort just above Aberfeldy. We didn’t plan much, but discovered the Dùn Hill walk as an option…

  • Fife Coastal Path: Aberdour to Kinghorn

    The morning started with some overcast and the hopeful promise of blue sky by the middle of the day. My starting point was Aberdour, famous for its castle which I have visited in the past but chose not to stop on this occasion due to the clouds. It is definitely on the list for a…

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