What a beautiful, lovely and gorgeous day but boy, it was bitter in the wind! A maximum of 5°C with a windchill factor of completely freezing!! It would cut you in half!
I want to start by saying that the really bright star you can right now is Venus, which is at its highest point in the sky at 6pm tonight, in Scotland. It will never be that high for the rest of the year.
Jupiter passed the closest to the moon last night but I’d forgot to say. When I did look up, it didn’t look anywhere near as close as the SkyView app suggested! It’s still up there tonight. Here endeth the Rambling Sloth Planet Report 🤣
So back to my day.
For those of you on FB you will know that I did a thing…. 🫣
I announced my new venture Her Travel Circle on my new FB page. It’s not ready to launch yet but we need to start drumming up interest now, for it to be worth anything when I have a website and community page.
Imagine a space where women can connect with like-minded travellers. A network that allows you to experience solo travel—without being entirely on your own. You could travel to a new place and stay with a local woman in our community. Maybe she’d show you around, share insider tips, or simply provide a safe place to stay for a night or two. The beauty of it? You decide how your trip looks. You can be both a traveller and a host, creating meaningful connections and making travel more affordable, safe, and enriching.
That just a snapshot of my intro but it gives you an idea. I’ve no idea how the blog works with the travel page yet but that will come in a few months I guess.
As soon as I posted all that I ran outside with the dogs… to escape the feedback. 😆
It was raw, crisp morning and for first dog walk was in freezing low cloud. I walked with Holly from next door. this is the only photo I took as we were too busy chatting!
Back home and straight out with Bhru and Freya and had a lovely chat with a guy who’d parked a big truck at the end of the village. He told me he has 3 white Boxers and came over to see the dogs!
By this time the low cloud is clearing and the sun is coming out. The temperature instantly lifts!
A few gates today for all my gate lovers! 😆
I love the tyre tracks in the frost.
You can tell how cold it is.
Huge long shadows.
And beautiful views.
I took the dogs into a field for a run around and the burn looked so pretty in the low, winter sun.
Where nature meets man made structure.
This is one of the oldest gates around here now. The metal work is disintegrating.
I came home and sat down to catch up on all the updates…. Can I just say that so many Sloth readers have been incredibly kind. They have posted the loveliest of comments and made me feel incredibly humbled but also very proud.
Thank you to everyone who has liked, commented, messaged or shared.
So after a few hours online, a load of washing done and hung to dry, I head over to the sea… my favourite Largs.
I took a body warmer to wear over a fleece… but thankfully I threw my warm coat in the car at the last minute. As I take these photos…. Wearing the long coat I am literally being cut in half by the cold wind. 🥶
This next photo shows the new promenade wall that they’ve been working on for a while now. This is the first time I’ve seen it. The stones have been swept right up by the storm a fortnight ago.
I always end up nipping to the public toilets in Largs thanks to my overactive bladder and urge incontinence… when you gotta go, you gotta go……. (Love me an overshare 😆)
Today they are 40p entry…. Not seen that before.
Largs to Cumbrae Ferry.
Caught a seagull about to fly off…
And relax….. my happy place.
Of course I hit up all the charity shops…. And didn’t buy a thing, but it was lovely to look.
It turned out that Craig was in Largs for a dog behaviour job, so I arranged to meet him for coffee. We walked down onto the beach so I could take a photo of the height of the stones, it doesn’t do it justice!
We went to Riviera Coffee. What a lovely place.
I had a decaf, coconut milk latte.
Then the mains arrived…. As we decided to eat! Craig had the Korean Burger and I had Halloumi Gyros.
Wow.
We had our first Her Travel Circle business meeting and Craig said I might not get the job, so I may have jumped the gun. 🫣😆
Yeah ok mr hotshot website guy….
I bought new laces for my boots today…. They look very dirty but the new ones are on the left. Much nicer.
I have since cleaned said boots 😆
On the way home I went through a car wash. I could hardly see out the windows. I’m not a fan of a car wash but needs must. It was quick and saved me having to do it… and only cost £3.50.
So I’m back at n my cosy space. There are 3 dogs in that photo! Khaleesi is camouflaged 😆
So thanks once again for all your support.
Stepping out of my comfort zone is scary but I’m using COURAGE, my word for the month, to help me every step of the way. I’m so grateful to Donna Ashworth for her book, Words to Live By and for the journalling process I’m on,. It’s really helping me.
Instead of believing I can’t and this will fail, I need to believe that I can.
I can.
Eeeeeeek 🫣🥴
Stay safe everyone 👯♀️✈️🌍
The Rambling Sloth 🦥 