After another fine start to the day, breakfasting on the rooftop, we decided to check out the coast and get our toes dipped in the sea. Didn’t quite feel up to a full swim, but it was good to be ‘testing the waters’. Breakfast this morning consisted of a pile of freshly baked ‘cheese pies’ Read more

I literally crawled from the warmth of the dark bedroom – I was tired and didn’t want get up yet, but on seeing the even warmer light of the morning sun on our rooftop terrace, it was a move worth making! And things got even better with a breakfast of the cake we’d been gifted Read more

Manchester airport was surprisingly busy at 04:30am and the new ‘developments’ to Terminal 2 caused us to do several laps of the airport before finally reaching the un-signposted car par that we had booked into to ‘save time’! It was just as chaotic inside, with people queuing for the ‘fast track’ while the regular security Read more

The Daffodils are making an early appearance in The Cottage garden already! A record perhaps?… For our final morning of the year at home, the rains and wind had finally (and thankfully) ceased, and droplets of water hung everywhere as the great evaporation festival began. The ground squelched underfoot as we walked down the track Read more

December has been a bizarre mix of me buzzing around between training courses, equipment checking and general admin, while Clare has been Cottage bound having been stuck down (literally bed bound), by Cryptosporidium (not recommended at all!). While Clare has been either sleeping or attempting to stay hydrated (food has been off the menu recently), Read more