Category Archives: Travel

Street Art: sell it to me

Posted on February 27, 2013 by dorkymum

This is an updated version of a guest post that originally appeared over at Thinly Spread last year. Big thank you to Christine for allowing me to republish it over here. I don’t know if you’ve been following the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative, Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tagged art, Banksy, culture, Edinburgh, graffiti, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, Robbo, street art | 10 Comments

Live in the Now January

Posted on January 18, 2013 by dorkymum

Back in December I did a Live in the Now post, for the first time in months, where I took some time to just look around at our life and reflect on where we all are. I’m going to try … Continue reading →

Posted in Family & Friends, Memes & Linkys, Scotland, Travel | Tagged Edinburgh, education, family, friendship, live in the now, parenting, schools, travel, UK snow | 14 Comments

Much to be thankful for

Posted on November 28, 2012 by dorkymum

We always say that DorkySon seems to grow up more in the space of a week-long holiday than he does in the other 51 weeks of the year, and our recent break turned out to be no exception. It was … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged America, family, family holidays, Fripp Island, Gullah culture, Low Country, Red PIano Gallery, South Carolina, Thanksgiving, travel, United States | 25 Comments

Project 52: Weeks 44-47

Posted on November 27, 2012 by dorkymum

Hello hello! We’re back from our holidays. Thank you so much to all the brilliant guest posters who kept the blog looking busy while I was away stuffing myself with Thanksgiving turkey, and thanks also to everyone who kept visiting, … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Travel | Tagged American beers, beer, blue glass bottle tree, bottle tree, family, food, Gullah tradition, Harry Potter, holidays, Kings Cross Station, London, Low Country, oysters, Platform 9 and 3/4, South Carolina, Thanksgiving, travel | 11 Comments

Happy Anniversary!

Posted on November 12, 2012 by dorkymum

I’ve just realised that I never got round to writing about our wedding anniversary, which was at the end of September. DorkyDad did say at the time that he was going to write me a guest post about it, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Family & Friends, Travel | Tagged anniversary, Bentley's Oyster Bar, England, hoxton, Hoxton Hotel, London, love, relationships, romance, shoreditch, UK, wedding anniversary | 23 Comments

Fringe Frolics

Posted on September 1, 2012 by dorkymum

So after the calm and the quiet of Harris, we headed here…

Posted in Scotland, Travel | Tagged Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, family, family holidays, Scotland, travel | 1 Comment

Holiday: Part 1

Posted on August 31, 2012 by dorkymum

*Waves hello* It has been a bit quiet around here, eh?! I hope you enjoyed some of the lovely guest posts I had scheduled over the last couple of weeks though. We’re now just getting back into our normal routine … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Scotland, Travel | Tagged family holidays, holidays, holidays in Scotland, isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, travel with children, Uist, Western Isles | 7 Comments

Project 52: Week 32

Posted on August 22, 2012 by dorkymum

Posted in Photography, Travel | Tagged 32/52, 52 week photography project, iPhoneography, isle of Harris, photography, Project 52, Scotland, Western Isles | 6 Comments

Silent Sunday

Posted on August 19, 2012 by dorkymum

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Posted in Photography, Travel | Tagged British holidays, holidays, isle of Harris, photography, silent Sunday | 7 Comments

Holidays

Posted on July 19, 2012 by dorkymum

We have just booked our summer holidays for this year, and we can’t wait. We’re having a few days up seeing family in the Western Isles, followed by a week in Edinburgh at the Fringe. I am reminded once again … Continue reading →