Scotland

 

Ferry to Mull - all calm at 7am

 

Interior of the Queen Mother's summer house at Edinburgh Botanical Gardens

Falkirk Wheel - replaced 10 lock gates on the canal

 

Beautiful Oban/Kerrera coast line

 

Tropically warm waters on Iona

Recommended Read

Tips for Vintage Style by Cath Kidston - loads of great ideas!

Wall art

Spied in the gift shop in the Royal Arcade in Norwich along with loads of other cool designs.

The coolest shop ever!

Lisbeth Dahl

Dream garden accessories

Holiday

We're off to Oban bright and early this morning. While I'm gone there will be pretty picutres every so often. Enjoy :)

Breakfast Epiphanies

I picked up Breakfast Epiphanies in the library a few weeks ago and wondered immediately why, as I'm still trying not to read trashy chick lit! But despite the cover it's blurb caught my attention and I read on.


It tells the story of Toby and Sara. After they decide to get married, Sara realises that the big Catholic wedding she had always imagined didn't feel right anymore with her having lost grip on her childhood faith and Toby's agnositicism. She gives herself a year to go on a quest for renewed faith. They visit countless religious leaders and follwers around the world to contemplate following a complately new religion together. The thing that annoyed me about this quest was that they never properly investigated Christianity, but thought they had it covered by going to Lourdes and talking to lapsed Methodists (who only went to church out of routine). So many of the failings they found with a lot of the beliefs they looked into might have been answered for them.

I was hoping the book might give me some insight into how other couples deal with differences in their faith lives - if an agnostic and former Catholic can work it out I thought, a minor quibble about church between Ben and me might fade into insignificance. And it did in a way. By reading the book I was able to assess what it is I'm really looking for in my faith life and maybe it encouraged me to be a bit more independent in that process. Maybe more on my conclusions in a couple of weeks.