Tales from a Pastor's wife...

Well what a Summer 2018 is turning out to be! I love sunshine and blue skies, windows and doors wide open to let the gentle breeze flow through; pottering in the garden and drinking long cool drinks on the patio. I thought that I would be leaving all that behind when we moved up to Scotland - but not this year. What a scorcher! You would have thought in this prolonged heatwave that I would have been dipping my toes in the sea and slapping on the Factor 50 down at the beach every day, yet despite Barassie beach only being a 3 minute walk away, I have found utter peace and contentment staying here at Rosedale, our lovely new home. The garden plants are doing well despite the intense heat, and I am quite happy with my random pick and mix selection of sale plants this year.  The roses are all in full bloom and I thought my guesswork with labelling the roses had proved to be correct.  Silver Anniversary 'You're beautiful'   Gertrude Jek...

A little over a month ago we moved out of the church manse and into this beautiful seaside home. We didn't move too far - about a mile and a half away from the manse. The move went well and David and I have been working every spare minute emptying boxes, re-positioning furniture and trying to get things organised.....still quite a few boxes in the garage to sort through, but I am sure we will get there one day. The removal men were fantastic at getting everything in to where it needed to be, and with David helping too it was done remarkably quickly.  I felt a little redundant on the 'move in' day - so I took a few photos for us to look back on in years to come. Well when I say a 'few', I actually took well over 100 photos! I couldn't possibly include them all, but here's a small selection showing some of the garden and house and a little taste of the area where we now live. The ...