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News

I’m back!

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The reason this blog has been so quiet over the last few months is that I’ve been kept busy with my impending marriage. Well I’m happy to report that on 20th October I was very proud to get married at Banchory Lodge Hotel in front of all our friends and family. It was a fantastic day, the hotel were superb. They’ve just finished doing a lot of refurbishment work and I don’t think they could have done anything better on the day. Top marks all round for the team at Banchory Lodge.

After the wedding we jetted off to New Zealand for a few weeks. Now we’re back and the jet lag is wearing off so I can start putting together some blog posts for the site. There’s definitely going to be a few New Zealand based ones going up in the next week and then after that I’m going to get fired into some new recipes and reviews again from home. Continue reading “I’m back!” →

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New site coming soon!

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I’ve been on wordpress.com for a while now. It’s fantastic and really makes it easy to get your blog off the ground however to grow the site as I want to I need to take it off the free wordpress and onto my own host. So in the next month I’m going to move the site onto http://www.minceandskirlie.com!

While I’m working on the new site I’ll put up a few posts on here to keep things ticking over but most of my time is being taken up with getting the new place tidied up and ready for visitors.

Hope to see you there soon!

News, Thoughts

Skye

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Just a quick post to share some pictures of our weekend in Skye. It’s the first time I’ve made it over there and I fell more than a little in love with the island. The weather helped! As did the wildlife. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many birds of prey in the wild and was lucky enough to see a Sea Eagle and it’s chicks on a boat trip from Portree and then I walked right into a Sea Eagle on the top of Storr the next day! It just jumped in the air 5 metres in front of me and casually soared over the cliff. Amazing.

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A blogging birthday!

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Mince and Skirlie is one year old this week! Happy birthday to us! It’s been a busy, eventful year full of great food, awesome drinks, good restaurants (and a few bad ones) and a lot of fun.

I love writing this blog but even more I love the fact that other people enjoy reading it.

Thanks to everyone who reads the recipes, reviews, thoughts and rubbish that I post and a special thanks to those of you that take the time to let me know what you think in the comments section!

Some stats for the first year:

There’s been 113 posts across 7 categories with 655 tags and 187 comments.

The blog’s had 9460 views with the busiest day being 530 views on August 8th (a massive, stumbleupon boosted record).

Average hits per day is 31.

The most popular recipe on the blog is for stovies.

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Back from holiday

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The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed some tweets on my twitter bar mentioning places in the south of France over the last week. We’ve been on a well-earned break to Nice for a week with a couple of little day trips while we were there; including a fantastic day in Monaco (where I got all caught up in the moment and proposed to my girlfriend).

I’ve got a couple of special posts coming up about the trip but for now here’s a couple of pics of the first thing I did when we got home. Aside from wine I took home some jars of tapenade and rillets so when I got home and had some time to kill I decided that some freshly baked bread would be perfect to try with the tapenade.