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Saturday bread. #mylifeindough Most of this is for the Assynt Leisure community open day tomorrow (Sunday 1st December) in Lochinver. Honestly we’re so lucky to have this facility (we are regular users of its gym and yoga classes where the equipment and t
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Thanksgiving. With thanks to @phoenix_in_knitwear and @donovanrosema for grifting me this treasured seasonal acorn squash. Childhood memories of roast acorn squash with butter and brown sugar (do others out there enjoy it this way!?). So it was featured i
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This dude. ❤️ Mountain terrier legend in his element. He is having a well-deserved lazy Friday after his big day out yesterday. 😴 #terrier #terriersofinstagram #terriermix #terriersofig #rescuedog #rescuedogsofinstagram #dogoftheday #advent
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Thanksgiving walk to the other side of An Teallach. Plans made and changed leading to this special place. Feeling very thankful! Now home for family recipes and convivial feasting! #anteallach #scottishmountains
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Scenes from today’s outing near Beinn Dearg. Looking towards An Teallach, from across a partly frozen Home Loch - and generally more partly frozen bog in the foreground! ️ #scottishmountains #scotlandscenery #anteallach #beinndearg #hillwalkingscotland #s
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Cul Mor in some insanely beautiful sunrise light this morning on the drive towards Ullapool. What a beautiful place we live in. 🌅 #culmor #assynt #assyntmountains #scotlandsunrise
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Weekend van mods. With thanks to Anna for introducing me to these kick ass Mexican tiles!! #vanmods #fordtransitconnect
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Hounds ❤️
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Lucky was jealous of my last Mina post so here he is sans underbite, but full of fierceness! #terrier
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This sweet creature has been terrified by Storm Bert! We are accustomed to heavy winds but this one seems to have really jarred her. A mix of hiding under the bed and pacing and weirdly incessantly being asked to be let out (only to run to the truck askin
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Saturday fritter themed #breakfast. Courgette and haloumi fritters + beetroot and carrot fritters with cardamom and lime yoghurt and a boiled egg. #putaneggonit. Inspo here from @ottolenghi and @berberandq #brunch recipes. Both delicious but the beetroot
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Ended up looking at views from afar today having not considered how difficult parking would be. 😝 Still, not bad!
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Hounds. #rescuedogsofinstagram
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Me and the hounds. Great pic by Mark. Hounds being uncharacteristically obedient. Weather, best of the year. Love the light this season. @markitect69
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A beautiful snow covered #Assynt today as seen from the journey up Spidean Coinich, a fairly short hill walk on Quinag with huge rewards on a day like today! Given the forecast we expect we’ll be hunkered down the rest of the week so glad we grabbed the c
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I went to Warsaw for a few days for work. Amazing city, great vibe, and superb food. Alas I was so busy I only managed some shots of night time and perogis! Felt like Christmas and wish I brought my ice skates. I’ll be back.
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I’m in Poland! #golabki
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Bought these “Carpe Diem” stickers to augment our journalling practice. Pretty much every night without fail since the day we moved here, we stop at 5pm for “chill time” and write in our notebook. I highly recommend this practice! ( Mood pad for 2, @dirth
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There’s a new chef in town, who amazingly serves all my favourite foods! Mark’s shakshuka with a Monica twist : all the usual ingredients plus green peppers, kale and broccoli. 🍳 Free refills on coffee too!
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In the #cairngorms for the week on my winter skills course with @loufreedomoutdoors / @ppmountaineering. Off to a great start even summiting on day 1 on #cairngorm! Weather today will not be so kind. 😝Thanks to @fotinimastorak
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A sure sign spring is on its way. Shoots galore around #inveraray castle. Roll on Imbolc!!
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365 days ago I went to a party and I knew then life was about to change. I had no idea how, but within a couple of months it was all pretty clear. Now, one revolution around the sun later, it’s amazing to say that we did it! 👊 There’ve been a few ch
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The scene today up #glenshira. Superb reflection over the Loch. Mood: grateful, optimistic, also hungry following a pre lunch run around Inveraray castle (aka “the castle loop”). Hoping for clear skies later. 🔭⭐️ #inveraray #argyll #scotlan
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Perhaps not the most traditional #burnsnight centrepiece but delicious all the same. (Terrible lighting courtesy of deep dark winter!) Fried tofu and orange nim jam, adapted from @ottolenghi’s Flavour. The original recipe serves it with udon noodles but w
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Surreal weather today … view from the road up to our house. Time to light the 🔥
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Cold day in #Inveraray, and the first time in my life I can enjoy the view of snowy mountain tops from the place I live. (In just over a week I’ll be immersed in those snowy tops, learning winter hill skills in the Cairngorms - can’t wait!). #inveraraypie
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One year ago.
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Local walk today up Dun Na Cuaiche by #inveraraycastle. The watchtower built as a folly in 1756 by the owners of #argyll estate. Its purpose was purely decorative, and its position was very specifically picked. Instead of being located on the highest poin
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Cooking the books. Challenging myself to use the books I already own rather than buying more! So, we’ve been cooking from @ottolenghi’s #Flavour. It’s been a while since I indulged in my favourite food groups: dips and flat bread! So, tada, we have braise
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A quiet week, mainly in the data mines, catching up after a busy December. So here are some recent pictures of Lucky in his favourite position. 😴 #dogoftheday #terriersofig
