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Last winter in Scotland
February is the twelfth-best month of the year. Doubly so in Scotland, one of the most oppressively rainy and dark places I have ever been. This is our fifth winter in a row here and, thankfully, our last.
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The Edinburgh Fringe is well organized chaos
…at least from the perspective of this father of two young children. The Edinburgh Fringe is a massive, month-long festival spanning thousands of acts and hundreds of venues spread across one of the busiest and most touristed cities in Europe. It sounds like it could be hell for families, but our experience was just the…
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Three summers
Today is the summer solstice. It’s the longest day of the year in Scotland, with 17 hours, 35 minutes of daylight and ZERO night. It’s going to be daylight 10 hours, 36 minutes longer than the winter solstice in Scotland.
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Going from one beautifully crazy day to the next
Have you ever shared a self-catering house with 30 other people, kids, and dogs in the Scottish highlands while also putting on a wedding for your parents? Have you ever started a new job, moved house, started legal proceedings, and worked on multiple house construction projects simultaneously while also looking after your children? This is…
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32 weeks (and counting)
Our house renovation has been going on for 32 weeks and counting. I said it before but I’ll mention it again: this project is and continues to be in the top three most stressful experiences of my life. How is it that, despite our windows and doors being installed incorrectly, our roof open to the…
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Back in the house for good!
197 days ago we started our house renovation. Today we moved back in for good. Finally. The place is far from done, and what is done is far from perfect, but none of that matters as much as having our own space. We’re getting pretty good at living in transition and the moving chaos isn’t…
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Camping out in our house
We spent last night in our house. If you have been following our house renovation project over this past year, you’ll know just how big of a deal this is. We haven’t yet moved officially, and it was a little like camping, but still, we weren’t at our in-law’s place for the first time in…
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Three years in Scotland
Today marks three years to the day that moved from the states and started our new life in Scotland. It’s been…an interesting experience. I would say it’s been beautiful and rough and full of strong contrasts, just like Scotland’s people, countryside, weather, food, and everything else I’ve experienced here. I thought I’d look back by…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
