We've been up to Golspie in Sutherland in the last few days to collect the keys to our new, very wee house, and to spend a few days settling in. The picture shows the town's Main Street, our cottage being just off it.
Not everything went smoothly - there appears to be a fault with the underfloor heating - but I don't think we've ever moved anywhere without there being problems, with the worst being when we first moved to Ardnamurchan.
What helped us cope with them was that the weather was beautiful and we were able to spend many hours out in the fresh air. I lost track of how many times we walked along the beach to the south of the town, at low tide....
....and at high, and I can't see us ever tiring of that walk. The largely sandy beach runs for over four kilometres until it ends at Loch Fleet and the tiny settlement of Littleferry.
The beach is home to a wealth of birds, everything from oystercatchers to curlews to wheatears and, along Loch Fleet, ospreys. Look carefully at the picture above and you can find eleven small waders, perhaps turnstones.
At the risk of sounding very antisocial, it was wonderful to walk for hours along a beautiful beach with hardly another soul in sight, and to be back in a place where the wildlife still thrives.
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