Christmas, a joyful time with family

What else do you do on a wet December Sunday but paint a fox in the snow

I was surprised myself that it turned out ok, What do you think?

The weather has been a bit on the damp side recently but we did get one dry day on Saturday to finally get the messy dumping ground behind the summer house sorted, the ground levelled and the gravel we kept from where we put the new borders in last year. We put in four slabs from the old front garden for the compost heap to sit on and now we are in business for all the garden rubbish and a storage place for the wheel barrow and all the assorted things a gardener collects. Love a bit of recycling.

Glittery glowing christmas in our wee hoose

Tonight a potato, pancetta and taleggio galette 

A lovely festive afternoon tea treat with a wee prossecco, another plus of living in town and being able to walk up to the High Street, who knew the country mouse was secretly a town mouse after a morning of baking for the horde arriving on christmas eve it was a lovely relaxing afternoon out.

We will be stepping into 2024 with updated leaflets, they were long overdue for some photo and info updates. I've even added a QR code so you can get a direct link to our website. Leaflets are available in the nursery when we are open, please take one or a few when you visit the nursery and give to your friends. Its the best advertising we can get, personal recommendations

Fuelled by coffee and a will to live we stepped into the battle arena known as Christmas food shopping. Three shops shopped and home for a very late lunch and a large glass of wine.

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope you have a relaxing and joyful festive season. We are looking forward to spending time with our kids and family, special times to treasure.

Wishing you all the best, Rona, David, Maisie and Poppy cat xx

Another snow storm coming in, winter on the loch is cold and bleak at times but beautiful in its own stark way. Any lover of our Scottish scenery will know.

Fresh herbs from the garden for Christmas cooking Parsley, Sage, Thyme and Winter savoury

This year's christmas cake

Thank you to everyone who joined us over christmas and helped celebrate here in the cottage. I love that my boys still come home for christmas that they were happy to camp on the floor together and helped devour the mincemeat pie mountain Along with Adam, Betty, Natasha and Cheryl we've eaten, laughed, been very competative at all the card games, trivial pursuits and mousie mousie its been cosy in this wee place and lots of fun. We missed Becky tho and hopefully will see her soon x I got some lovely gifts, including lots of books to add to my book mountain I better get reading, as for the chocolate mountain......

Christmas eve get together

brie and cranberry tart

nibbles

Spiced pear cake on christmas eve

Rona's special trifle

Christmas day walk

Christmas dinner

Christmas bomb pudding

Poppy doing cat stuff

Baby Guinness!

Lovely new paints and brushes

Engraved for us by Daniel

Left over sandwiches for lunch

Maisie

Well, not how I was planning to spend today. Ill all night with some sort of cold flu lurgy thing, stayed in bed until after lunch, that's when you know it's had, cause I'm never ill. But I've got nurse Maisie Mouse making sure I'm kept warm.......hmmmmm not sure who's comfort is the priority with Maisie

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