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Isla Mujeres – just far enough away

Far away across the Atlantic, tucked away in a corner of the Mexican Caribbean, just off the Yucatan peninsula, the island of Isla Mujeres is old home, memory chest and long time inspiration to me. It’s colour drenched seas and white powder sands are the…
  • Isla Mujeres – just far enough away
caribbean morning

Escaping Winter – Isla Mujeres in November

It is, as I mentioned in the previous post, nearly ten years since I last saw Isla Mujeres, now I am here and whilst some things have changed so much has stayed the same. Thankfully! Isla still has that island vibe; that chilled out, calmed…
  • Escaping Winter – Isla Mujeres in November
Isla Mujeres Mexico

Going back to the island….

Isla Mujeres is a spit of coral and sand in the Caribbean Sea just off Cancun in Mexico. To me it is one of the most beautiful places on earth. Blessed with powder white sand beaches Isla is surrounded by the most amazing coloured water,…
  • Going back to the island….
lower town fishguard

November Days and Nights Drawing In

This is the first November I have spent in the UK for nearly a decade….it’s bloody dark isn’t it! The weather since February had lulled me into a false sense of security; a mild winter, a gorgeous early spring and a lengthy summer that shone…
  • November Days and Nights Drawing In
annie sloan chalk paint cast iron bath

Lazy like a fox – why I love Chalk Paint!

I am known for being lazy. My Mother once said the only reason I breast fed was because I was too lazy to wash bottles – it’s true, such shame! But I am lazy like a fox, I do a ton of research so I…
  • Lazy like a fox – why I love Chalk Paint!
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So Many Learning Curves – Taking on GoPro Hero4 and Thermomix!

It was a coincidence that I landed myself with two, totally new to me, need to learn how to use them, bits of technology, within the space of a month. One was the Thermomix, a high end food processor that you see used on Masterchef…
  • So Many Learning Curves – Taking on GoPro Hero4 and Thermomix!

Rebuilding Home – Inside the House – things that worked and things that didn’t

If the garden was bad the inside of the house was worse. When we arrived we only had one small loo and shower and we only had that because my lovely plumber Ian came out to the house, waded through the crap and got it…
  • Rebuilding Home – Inside the House – things that worked and things that didn’t
Rock off Ramsey

Summer in Pembrokeshire before the tourists arrive

In May and June, before high season kicks off, before the schools close and the families come to colonise the holiday cottages, we get Pembrokeshire to ourselves. We get the wide beaches, bouncy grass headlands and secret coves between steep slices of cliff, all to…
  • Summer in Pembrokeshire before the tourists arrive

Rebuilding Home – In The Garden – things that worked and things that didn’t

I returned to my home in Pembrokeshire in February to a garden that was mainly mud interspersed with nettles and random rubbish. My lousy tenants had ruined the garden with a combination of chickens, dog crap, bizarre fencing and driving assorted vehicles over it. In…
  • Rebuilding Home – In The Garden – things that worked and things that didn’t

Eating Pembrokeshire – Narberth, foodie heaven

I haven’t written much since we got home; we had a surprisingly mild winter and so we took the opportunity to work outside on the house and garden, then we had a beautiful spring and so we decided to continue to make the most of…
  • Eating Pembrokeshire – Narberth, foodie heaven
Sunset Newgale 14th april

Because I’m Welsh – Moving Home

This is Wales, where the restless waves of the Irish Sea forever wash wide grey sands and the sunsets linger for hours, where the greens of the hills and the water meadows have a hundred hues and a symphony of birdsong starts in the semi…
  • Because I’m Welsh – Moving Home
Fishermen at the Millipark

Indian Summer

This is the Indian Summer (cue Stereophonics), it’s my absolute favourite time of year, I can’t seem to take a bad photograph with clear colour drenched skies above us, seas that look lit from below and sunlight through the leaves changing their colours every second.…
  • Indian Summer
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September Sunsets

We were promised rain last Monday night, storms and rain, lightening and rain, wet stuff from the sky – hurray! Pathetic isn’t it, how excited you get about seeing rain and feeling rain and smelling rain after four months without a cloud in the sky.…
  • September Sunsets

Cornucopia – Turkey for the open minded

There is something hugely uplifting about Cornucopia, the tri annual magazine and online site that cherishes Turkey. I like to think of it as like the best baklava, the kind that gets offered on very special occasions, the kind that is layers of crisp goodness…
  • Cornucopia – Turkey for the open minded
Ozel reef dive

Diary of a diving day…

Early morning – I’m lying in bed waiting for the alarm to go off. My internal alarm woke me up a few minutes ago and I’m watching the sunlight on the pine forests and the mosque minaret and thinking “I need a gallon of coffee”…
  • Diary of a diving day…
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