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Tree Hugging

I for one am glad to see the back of January. It started badly with a major cock-up by Niall and I. We got our days of the week very muddled after Hogmanay (it wasn't the whisky, honestly...!) and convinced ourselves that a changeover was occurring on a Saturday rather than a Friday. Imagine our …

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Two Hundred Years Young

How apt that my last post was entitled ‘Slowing Down’ as I then ground to a halt with these little snippets of Torrisdale life. Not that life ever grinds to a halt here, far from it. We continued to have a busy autumn and the bookings really only petered out in November but it was …

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Slowing Down

Torrisdale is a spectacle of rich, autumnal colours at the moment and it's like living in glorious Technicolor(tm). I have been away with the kids for a few days and the trees had changed so much in my absence, it was almost an assault on my senses, but in the best possible way. It is …

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Autumnal Nuptuals

I love being proved wrong (no, really) especially when it comes to hasty end-of-summer statements about the weather. I got it very, very wrong last month as I confidently proclaimed that autumn was here. The leaves are changing but the temperatures have stayed favorable and the sun has shone and shone. What a fabulous extended summer …