Sporting Tales and Highland Adventures
Following on from my last personal kinda blog, in early 2014 I went to see Sunderland at Wembley. The 5th time since my first visit for the 1985 Milk Cup Final when I was 11 years old and they broke my heart. This time Man City were the opponents in the league cup final. I got […]
Guess the UK’s top trending place to visit in 2020
Did you know which city was the only place from the UK to be listed Airbnb’s top 20 trending destinations to visit in 2020? ABERDEEN! Of course. The FAMOUS Aberdeen. Now as we all know we didn’t really get much time to start our 2020 travels when the big padlock landed right over all of our […]
Load of Bollocks
I’ve always fancied writing a blog. Well for a good few years anyway. And since then an old friend asked “Why are you writing the blog?” Well I’ll tell you. When I was at Boldon Comprehensive school I remember absolutely loving writing. For English I had one of those great inspiring teachers. Miss Collinson, I […]
Finding my Feet Again
It was 2013, and had been over 10 years since I had spent any length of time living on my own. As fresh faced young 20 something pup when I had just arrived in Aberdeen. Green and wet behind the ears. I’d just moved into a new city, a new country! I had everything to […]
The Hardest Thing in the World
This is the hardest it’s felt to get started since I started my fledgling blogging career a week ago. I didn’t really know what I wanted to write about when I started this blog on my business website so wrote abut my childhood and went from there, chronologically. I‘ve felt a bit like Forrest Gump […]
Setting up Camp
The lovely dear I bought my house in Aberdeen from, Grace, had owned it since it was built. Which was just after the war ended. She had raised her family here with her husband Reginald Rust Bissett! And the locals here make fun of English names!! They call “us” Nigel’s! Haha. It’s quite funny really. […]
(Another) Englishman in Aberdeen
I came up to Aberdeen the week before Christmas in 2001. Purely for work. It was a temporary contract with one weeks notice. Almost 20 years later I still can’t escape the place! It was my first experience of being away from my hometown of South Shields. And I came up up by myself. Off […]
Lockdown Benefits…
I’m lucky in that I can manage many aspects of my business online and over the phone in isolation. I have been able to concentrate on marketing for the future and trying to secure the bookings which are currently allowed like key workers, folk unable to return to their home address, self isolations etc. It’s […]