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By: welliesontheschoolrun May 18, 2016

Gail

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An outdoorsy Scottish Mum blogging about travel, writing, lifestyle and books.

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Had a fab weekend at this year’s @jogbookfest, meeting lots of interesting people, listening to some amazing readings - and hanging out at @stacksbistro enjoying copious amounts of coffee. I also loved doing my little blogging workshop at @lythartscentre, getting the chance to work with author James Robertson, and attending a kids selkie sock puppet workshop with illustrator Kate Leiper - so many good things going on! I’m ready for a break now though, and after today I’m going to have a little blog and social media holiday for a few weeks so I’ll take the chance now to wish you a lovely school holidays/ Easter (or whatever else you’re celebrating in April). I won’t be picking up DM’s and Facebook messages but if you’d like to contact me you can still email (link in my profile page). See you soon! X Anyone else heading to the John O’ Groats Book Festival this weekend? 😊💙 #booklover #outdoorslover #bookfestival #excitedmuch There hasn’t been much to love about the Caithness weather so far this month (💨💦🤷‍♀️), but we’re only a few days in so things can only get better 🤞. There’s still plenty of reasons to be happy, all detailed in this month’s #littleloves if you’d like to have a peek. Like my set of nature postcards from the @coostailgallery (not an ad, just a #smallbusinessshoutout ☺️), and coming to the end of #dawsonscreek for the second time in 2 decades (Dawson/Joey/Pacey what am I going to do without you now? 😱) Also, a nice chat with a stranger who asked me what I thought about ‘all this Brexit business’ while I was prepping for the @jogbookfest alone in a local cafe. If nothing else it’s getting people chatting. Brexit - the new British weather (but don’t worry, I don’t plan to mention it again ☺️🙈). #linkinbio #ontheblogtoday I do hope those of you who are Mamas got something nice for Mothers Day yesterday. After living in an all male household for several years now, I’ve found that dropping lots of hints, physically guiding males to items on store shelves - and occasionally just ordering things yourself - can all work really well. ☺️. I used the middle tactic this year during our recent visit to Inverness when I spotted this on the shelf of @waterstones. I spent last month devouring the BBC series on Netflix (yep, only about 2 years after almost everybody else it seems ☺️). I loved it so much that I’m determined to read the book now. The only people I know who’ve read it are @bysarahmostly, my Mother in Law and probably a few members of my writing group. Anybody else? 💙 Feeling rather proud of my little feet today after getting my 5th consecutive PB at this week’s Parkrun. I say this not to brag (well maybe a little bit, this is Instagram after all 😉), but rather to say that good things are always possible. A couple of years ago I was feeling rotten - really horrible - for what felt like the longest time, and if someone had told me then I’d be doing 5k runs every weekend, I wouldn’t have believed them one tiny little bit. It’s taken me a long time to get my fitness back to what it was, and to be honest many weeks at Parkrun are still a struggle. Some weeks I feel like I’m flying, while others I’m literally stumbling and staggering my way around the course (today was a stumbling and staggering kind of day ☺️). The important thing, I’ve found, is just to keep focusing on putting one foot in front of the other. As with so many things in life, if you just keep putting one foot in front of the other (or however else you need to move forwards), you’ll get there in the end 💙. #runningtherapy #parkrun #runforit #parkrunuk It’s been a busy spell of birthdays in our house....🍰💐. If you look back a few posts, you’ll see that my repertoire of birthday cakes is actually very small. There’s this one (in varying designs and degrees of wonkiness), a Victoria sponge with whipped cream and strawberries, and a chocolate log from a recipe by @nourishing_insights (thankyou Beverley and co). I can also just about manage cupcakes, but alas, as I am gluten free, apart from the Nourishing Insights log, I very rarely get to taste my own baking 🎻☺️. Thankfully I have three boys on hand who will eat just about anything, and assure me that despite the wonkiness, it usually tastes quite good. 😊 #thethingsyoudoforlove

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