Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
I had a lovely invite from Simpson’s Hotel and Restaurant in Queens Road, Aberdeen. The request was to review a three course meal for two at an evening sitting. It’s been a long time since the man and I have been out together, so we decided to accept and happily trotted down to the hotel last [...]
This is the press release for today, and has come out from a very good friend of mine. She has just launched a fantastic programme of events for teenagers in our local area, to help equip them with a valuable skill set for their future lives and careers. I wholly support what Teen Breakthrough has [...]
With grinning faces, the kids love it if there’s pizza, or burgers and chips on the school menu. Granted, the days of lumpy custard have hopefully spent their last ever days gracing the plates of our growing future generation, but for my kids, stodge is what they want from a school dinner in Aberdeen City. [...]
I’m happy to host this guest post from the fashion management students at my old Uni, The Robert Gordon University, who are raising money for The ARCHIE Foundation for children. ——— Since it began in 2008 the annual charity fashion show at Robert Gordon University has raised tens of thousands of pounds for deserving charity [...]
I’ve recently had the pleasure of visiting the Andrew Gordon Butchery and Fine Foods Store in Chattan Place, Aberdeen. The owner, Andrew Gordon, is also known on Twitter as @aberdeenbutcher, and is a relatively new follow of mine. I was aware of regular tweets over the last couple of months from people who’ve been into his shop and [...]
Snow in Aberdeen, April 2012 Related Posts:Simpson’s Restaurant Review – A Meal for TwoTeen Breakthrough – A New Event for Teenagers in the October Holidays in Aberdeen and ShireSchool Lunches – “Healthy” versus “Unhealthy”Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Best of British Show in aid of The ARCHIE Foundation – 25th May 2012Coco Mango Chicken Recipe & [...]
This is a Featured Post This year has been a fabulous year with Interflora for the Scottish Mum Blog. For Mothers Day, Interflora sent me a gorgeous bunch of flowers to review and gave me one to give away. They were absolutely beautiful, and I can’t resist showing you the picture again. There were many smiles in [...]
This post is just for a little advice really. One of my boys is reaching the age where he will soon be asked to go on overnighter trips with the school. He would be all for it, but he is also quite nervous about it. He wants to go, and I’d like him to [...]
Fabulous food find today was a HUGE – SEEDLESS watermelon from Costo in Aberdeen at £2.99. Absolutely fabulous and the kids are hugely impressed with how much there is in the bowl after I sliced it all up to put it in the fridge for nibbles. Watermelon works out at about 30 calories [...]
We tried to find a way to amuse the kiddos on Tuesday, which saw us visit Transition Extreme. It is a skatepark for BMX’ers, skateboarders and climbers My boys need to do the training before they are allowed to enter the park, so it was disappointment all round as I booked them in for next week [...]
It should have been a wonderful experience. It should have been 8 hours of pampered bliss. After months of anticipation, waiting for the 24th of June to roll around on the way to Cybermummy 11, I tentatively stepped aboard the 7.52 from Aberdeen to head down to London. I was hoping that the trip was going to be full of [...]
It’s about time I introduced one of my hobbies – my smelly heaven of candlemaking. I absolutely love the scents and smells of burning candles. Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter, I love, love, love them. I started out by buying the ready mades you get in supermarkets, but they just didn’t cut it for me. [...]
