Day: November 25, 2023

Day 1327 Aurora Borealis edition!!!! Second blog of the day šŸ™Œ

I have finally captured photos of the Northern Lights. Bucket list item āœ…

I was annoyed with myself as I didnā€™t want to go out in the coldā€¦. I had messaged the Crochet Hookers group chat and said that I just needed it to come to the back garden.

And it did.

Now itā€™s not the brightest and it wasnā€™t that visible to the naked eyeā€¦ but it was amazing and Iā€™ve seen it!!

I put on my big girl pants on and went down to Kilbirnie Loch, by myself, in the dark!! I was a wee bit scared but the moon is so bright that I could see quite well once my eyes adjusted.

It still wasnā€™t that visible without the phone. I could just about make it out without itā€¦ but you wouldnā€™t know without having seen it through a phone first, if that makes sense.

The moon was so bright that it was just as pretty! (I have to say it was way darker than these photos make outā€¦)

Looking over toward Beith.

This next one has the train moving in the distanceā€¦ that straight line of lightsā€¦ love the reflection of it in the water too.

Then someone turns up and shines their headlights right on meā€¦.. I was scared they arrived but they must have been terrified when they saw me lurking in the shadows!

Thereā€™s my shadow in the middle!

Oh I am buzzing. Honestly so chuffed with myself. Got the village running about daft too!

Think thatā€™s the best of them. There are loads more but theyā€™re very faint.

Always look to nature to give you that natural buzz.

Life is for living.

Stay safe everyone šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©

Day 1327 a lovely sunny Saturday with another trip to Largs !

What a beautiful day!

It was such a heavy frost this morningā€¦. -4Ā°C when I left for the little gift shop. It was so cold but a beautiful, clear sky day.

I actually had a lie in until 8am. Canā€™t remember the last time I managed that. Turns out Craig was up with Calaidh at 2.30amā€¦.

I heard nothing!

She was barking and he shouted at her a couple of times to go back to bed , WHILE LYING RIGHT BESIDE MEā€¦.. nothing. That amazes me.

This was the view out the window when I woke up. Ignore the scabby sky dish!

Khaleesi enjoyed her first hard frostā€¦. Think sheā€™s jumping up thinking jeezo this is baltic!!

The little gift shop was really busy and I came back up the road for a bowl of soup in front of the wood burning stoveā€¦ all sounds super cosy as lovely doesnā€™t it! šŸ˜‚ thereā€™s 4 excited dogs bounding around in the midst of all that!

When Craig came home from work, we headed back to Largs for fish and chips The Fish Works in Largs. Yes I had just eaten but I wasnā€™t missing this for anything.

When Craig asks me what I want to doā€¦ I ALWAYS suggest thisā€¦ but he drives every day with work so doesnā€™t want to go back out. Iā€™m so chuffed he wanted to go today and we had a lovely fish and chips!!

Largs is so different from yesterdayā€¦. So still and calm.

There are no photos of the restaurant, or their foodā€¦. We ate outside and you have to be very careful with the seagulls!!

The fish and chips really are exceptional. I had lemon sole and Craig had battered king prawns šŸ¤ (who knew there was a prawn emoji?!?)

Itā€™s not like a standard chippy and nothing is greasy. I canā€™t recommend it enough!

We went for a wee walk after the food. So I could take some photosā€¦ obviously!

I should say itā€™s only 3.30pm!

It was just beautiful!

Speaking of beautifulā€¦. The Aurora is just kicking off in the UK tonightā€¦. How much do I actually want to see it though, I canā€™t bring myself to get wrapped back up and get out there. I want it to come to my back garden to save me the bother! Still way too much light pollution for thatā€¦.

On the way back from Largs I got my trusty Co-pilot to take photos of the moon as it was massive and so low in the sky.

I commented that it looked like we were on Tattooine. (Star Wars!)

He was awfy proud of me!! Star Wars wife!

You can just about see it above the trees on this photo. Iā€™d have obviously got a better shot than this but I take that I can get šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜˜

We went into the pub for a couple when we got home. I had 0% Whitley Neil raspberry ā€œginā€. Very nice.

This was the moon when I walked the 10 steps back to the house. You can see the frost on the roof too.

Have a lovely Saturday evening!

Iā€™m kayaking with Lindsay in the morning and I am beyond excited. I have ALWAYS wanted to learn to kayak. šŸ›¶ Iā€™m hoping this will open up a whole new world on the water.

Stay safe everyone šŸ›¶šŸŒ…šŸ›¶