Jamie McHale

The month started with Harriet finally getting a shoulder operation that she'd been waiting for since pre-Covid.

October was a packed month.

This month started with Jack starting to crawl properly.

I started August by hiking for a few days with Aileen on the Settle-Dales Loop.

Last weekend I joined Aileen for part of her walk on the Pennine Way.

Like every month for the past nine months, time has flown by.

We arrived back from our two month trip to New Zealand at the very end of May, so the first part of June was filled with jet lag and getting back to work.

May was the second month of our two month trip to New Zealand.

April has been a fun month!

We arrived in Cromwell and stayed at an Airbnb near the Felton Road Winery.

We arrived in Wellington after a few days layover in Sydney, still jetlagged, but happy to be on the road.

This trip was the thing that we'd promised ourselves that we'd do when Jack was born.

March has been really fun.

It has been a busy month.

January was a difficult month.

December started with snow in Edinburgh.

There was one event this month: the arrival of Jack.

Welcome to the world Jack.

Our baby hasn't arrived yet, and we are past due.

Not long to go until our baby arrives.

[Watch embedded video on YouTube] Riding the C2C has been on my bucket list for a while, and it seemed like the perfect wee adventure before our baby arrives in October.

It's festival month in Edinburgh, so the city has been busy and life has flown by.

We spent a week at the end of July in Amsterdam and Haarlem - two short city breaks packaged into one trip.

The most important update of the month is that Harriet and I are expecting a baby!

A very short update for this month.

We're just back from a week-long break in Blauzac, a small village near Uzes in the Gard, south of France.

This month was mainly filled with Marathon training, in preparation for the Edinburgh Marathon at the end of the month.

Three years after registering, I finally got to run the Edinburgh Marathon (thanks Covid!).

April went by in the blink of an eye.

I've only got a quick update this month.

This weekend I joined a friend and six others on Trail Running Scotland's "Trail Skills" course in the Pentlands, based out of Bonaly Country Park.

February was busy.

I started the month with early morning walks, and with late winter sunrise, I managed to get some nice photos in Holyrood park.

December was a quiet month.

We took a short break down to the Lake District to celebrate Harriet's birthday, spending a couple of days walking in Eskdale.

November has passed fairly uneventfully.

The big news of the month was that Harriet and I moved into our new flat.

Peebles is a town in the Scottish borders, around 45 minutes drive south from central Edinburgh.

September went by in the blink of an eye, and was a fun month.

August was even more hectic than predicted.

I've not been that active online this month.

The Erskine Bridge closed ten minutes before we were due to cross.

June was mainly about enjoying the summer weather in Edinburgh.

[Watch embedded video on YouTube] I've been wanting to get back into cycle-camping for a while now.

May just disappeared.

I kicked off the month with an Interintellect Book Club Salon on Beowulf.

I'm a little late with this month note for March.

[Watch embedded video on YouTube] Last weekend I took my new bike out for a spin around the Pentlands, and then over to South Queensferry, roughly following the southern and western edges of the Edinburgh City Boundary.

The days are getting longer here in Edinburgh.

It's a bit like Groundhog Day here in Edinburgh.