Happy Birthday Blog and Islay – Her name is Girl Carmen

Happy Birthday dear Blog…3 years old today and ooh ooh ooh – I’ve just seen that it’s my 50th post too! Wow and hello September!  I’m more than a little unfashionably late in publishing some of my summer adventures.  In fact my blog has been positively neglected recently.  Well adventures abated (for a few weeks […]

The Isle of May – This time we landed!

Back in June 2012 I took my first ever boat trip to explore the Isle of May, a national nature reserve which is also known as ‘The Jewel of the Forth’.  Well that was my intention anyway!  I had boarded the May Princess on a very overcast day and the skipper had warned that the […]