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By: welliesontheschoolrun July 12, 2018August 3, 2018 Lifestyle, Love, Reflections, Self Improvement, UncategorizedCreativity, Featured, Happiness, Health, Mental Attitude, Mental Health, Quotes, Self Discovery, Thoughts, Writing9 Comments

Lighting Candles and Other Notes on Happiness

Lately I seem to have so much to say that I don’t even know where to start writing it. Over the last year I have absorbed such a lot of information from reading, podcasts and just living that I really want to share. Some of this is on health, some on happiness, some on self-improvement…

The North Coast 500, Also Known As Home

There is a road I see from the front door of my home in Caithness that forms part of the North Coast 500. As kids, we knew it better as the road ‘up west’, a passage imbued with the promise of beaches, picnics and sand between our toes. These days, the route has a new title…

By: welliesontheschoolrun April 9, 2018August 1, 2018 Lifestyle, Reflections, Social Media, Uncategorized, Writing and BloggingBeliefs, Featured, Kindness, Opinions, Quotes3 Comments

Opinions, Beliefs and Social Media – Maybe We Should All Just Agree to Disagree

One of the reasons I stopped spending so much time on Facebook was due to the amount of online ‘arguing’. For a while there, it seemed like conflict was the order of the day. It was particularly noticeable around big issues like the refugee crisis, Brexit and the Scottish Referendum. But in general, arguments could…

By: welliesontheschoolrun March 22, 2018May 30, 2019 Health & Lifestyle, UncategorizedAutoimmune Disease, Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, Autoimmune Illness, Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, Featured, Hashimotos, Lifestyle, Living Well, Living with Chronic Illness, Thyroid Disease, Underactive Thyroid12 Comments

What Autoimmune Illness Really Feels Like

As March is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month, I wanted to share my own experience of living with an autoimmune condition. As autoimmune conditions – an immune response which causes the body to attack itself – are by their nature often invisible, they can lead to misunderstanding, misconception, and sometimes disbelief. Many sufferers are confronted with the notion that their health complaints are somehow…

By: welliesontheschoolrun February 28, 2018August 1, 2018 Family, Love, North Coast 500, Reflections, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Travel, UncategorizedBeach, Featured, Photography, Roadtrip, Slow Living, Sunday Well Spent7 Comments

A Sunday Well Spent

Last Sunday we took a trip ‘up west’ to enjoy some unseasonably sunny February weather and sample some of the best beaches the North of Scotland has to offer. We are fortunate where we live to be able to reach something akin to a wilderness within a half hour or so of our front door. The…

By: welliesontheschoolrun July 20, 2017August 1, 2018 Family, Photography, Scotland, Travel, UncategorizedBeach holiday, Campervan Travel, Family Travel, Featured, Outer Hebrides15 Comments

Ten Things to do on a Family Holiday to the Outer Hebrides

Having just returned from a wonderful campervan trip to the Outer Hebrides, I honestly can’t think of many places I could recommend more wholeheartedly for a family holiday. With mile upon mile of white sandy beaches, scenery to die for, and history seeping from every single island, this idyllic setting would make for a fantastic…

By: welliesontheschoolrun June 21, 2017August 1, 2018 Books, Family, Health & Lifestyle, Home, Kids, Lifestyle, Love, Parenting, UncategorizedBook Reviews, Featured, Mindful Living, Minimalism, Present Over Perfect, Reading, Self Help38 Comments

Saying No to Perfect

Last week I picked up a book called ‘Present Over Perfect’ from my local library and read it in the space of one weekend. I can’t remember the last time I did this – but something about this particular book resonated with me deeply, and brought to the surface a lot of things I have…

By: welliesontheschoolrun April 26, 2017August 1, 2018 North Coast 500, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Travel, UncategorizedFeatured, Harry Potter, Movies, Photography8 Comments

12 Reasons to Plan a Scottish Road Trip

If you follow my blog regularly, you’ll know that I’m Scottish, and that our little family spends a lot of time touring our lovely country in our VW campervan. Few things make me happier than spending time enjoying our beautiful landscape and encouraging others to do likewise, and this Easter we completed an epic, 1100 mile west-of-Scotland road trip…

Hibernation Diaries – Small Steps Back Into The World

By: welliesontheschoolrun May 31, 2020May 31, 2020

Caithness, Covid-19, Opinion, Reflections, Scotland, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Inspiring quotes, Isolation, Life, Lockdown, Scottish Highlands1 Comment

In a crisis, we find out who we are. I heard these words on TV the other day as we completed our tenth week of ‘hibernation,’ a milestone that saw Scotland ease lockdown rules to enable people to meet with others outside their household. The new rules have a distinctly outdoor focus, enabling family reunions…

Hibernation Diaries – Storms and Sunshine, Projects and Plans

By: welliesontheschoolrun May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

Caithness, Covid-19, Home, Lifestyle, Reflections, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Isolation, Lockdown, Scottish Blogs, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Writers, Spring13 Comments

Leo Tolstoy once wrote ‘Spring is the time of plans and projects.’ Yet here at home in Caithness, the ninth week of lockdown meant plans and projects put on hold. Keeping up with the daily cycles of homeschool, home work and domesticity leaves us feeling that boredom might be a luxury. Half-weeded patches of garden…

The Last Daffodils, Caithness, Spring 2020

Hibernation Diaries – Big Emotions, Doorstep Gifts and Lost Teddies

By: welliesontheschoolrun May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

Caithness, Covid-19, Family, Lifestyle, Reflections, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Dyslexia, Homeschooling, Inspiration, Isolation, Life, Lockdown, Positive Outlook, Scottish Blogs10 Comments

Week eight of lockdown was a challenging one in our household. With my husband working long hours from the spare bedroom, it fell to me to become chief teacher, cook, cleaner, dog walker and all-round operative of essential domestic tasks. On the school front, we had a day of big emotions as I tried to…

Hibernation Diaries – Learning New Skills in Lockdown, Quiet and Cianalas

By: welliesontheschoolrun May 10, 2020May 10, 2020

Caithness, Covid-19, Reflections, UncategorizedBooks, Coronavirus, Introversion, Introvert, Lockdown, Positive Outlook, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Writers, Spring12 Comments

And so another week passes in lockdown. Seven weeks of homeschool, thirty-five sessions of P.E. with Joe Wicks. Our children at home for the longest period of time since starting nursery. Homeworking, Facetime calls, daily exercise, a seemingly insatiable familial hunger. Dirty dishes piling up like small, obstinate mountains where they lie. A new dishwasher…

Hibernation Diaries – Sleeplessness, Outlander, The Province of the Cat and the Coming of the Blossom

By: welliesontheschoolrun May 3, 2020

Books, Caithness, Inspired Living, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Covid-19, Lockdown, Positive Thinking, Spring10 Comments

This week marked my first foray into gloominess in this era of lockdown, Covid-19 and social distancing. I started the week with a pain in my back and a new bout of insomnia (something I attribute less to worries about Coronavirus, than the hormonal see-saw that seems to characterise my early forties). Added to the…

Pink Sunset looking from Caithness to Orkney April 2020

Hibernation Diaries – Homeschool, Helping, Lost Shoes and Hopeful Sunsets

By: welliesontheschoolrun April 26, 2020April 26, 2020

Caithness, Family, Inspired Living, Lifestyle, Reflections, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Covid-19, Life, Positive Outlook, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Writers, Self Discovery, Writing6 Comments

We are now entering week five of lockdown here in the UK (at least I think it’s week five – it could actually be week four, or six, and I’d currently be none the wiser). The days and weeks are melting into one somewhat, and a sense of routine is becoming ever more important –…

Hibernation Diaries: Geese, Orca and April’s Evening Diamond

By: welliesontheschoolrun April 19, 2020

Caithness, Home, Inspired Living, Lifestyle, Reflections, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Covid-19, Homeschool, Life, Mindful Living, Nature, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Writers15 Comments

My blog has become something of a journal during these past weeks of lockdown, and thus it continues. It’s difficult, right now I think, to view the world without the spectre of Coronavirus, the effect it has on our daily lives, our families, our collective consciousness, our dreams. For the first time in living memory…

When This is Over….Seven Dreams for a Hopeful Future

By: welliesontheschoolrun April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

Inspired Living, Lifestyle, Reflections, Self Improvement, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Covid-19, Growth, Kindness, Life, Mindful Living, Personal Development, Slow Living7 Comments

One of the things I keep hearing in this era of Covid-19 and social distancing is that when this is all over, things will be different. As I mentioned here recently, it’s left me wondering what will be different, and what will be the same. Do my dreams differ from those of other people, or…

Snow, Spring and Promising to Remember

By: welliesontheschoolrun April 6, 2020

Caithness, Health & Lifestyle, Home, Inspired Living, Love, Reflections, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Covid-19, Family, Life, Scottish Blogs, Scottish Writers, Spring4 Comments

The last week has brought a myriad of feelings – anxiety, contentment, fear, comfort, positivity, helplessness, happiness. Stories that are not mine to tell mean that there has also been shock – and sadness – too. The devastation wreaked by Covid-19 seems to creep a little closer, reminding us that statistics are not statistics –…

Life Lessons in Lockdown, Introversion and Dreams of Springtime

By: welliesontheschoolrun March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

Caithness, Health & Lifestyle, Inspired Living, Parenting, Reflections, UncategorizedCoronavirus, Covid-19, Family, Home, Introvert, Life, Motherhood, Scottish Writers8 Comments

In the week or so since I last wrote the world has shifted once more, with another layer of the UK’s Covid-19 response unfurling towards ‘lockdown.’ Citizens are restricted to a narrow range of activities, with outings from the home permissible only for work, obtaining food or medicines, helping the vulnerable or partaking in one…

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