Simply..thoughts of home....

11/3/2015

I'm not homesick, but I do find my thoughts turning to home these last few days....are our daffodils out? And the pulmonaria Blue Ensign? I'll switch on the propagator as soon as I get back, and I feel an urgent need to look through my seeds. I expect the sweet peas have germinated...and is there still snow on Creachan Mor I wonder?

I went down to the beach on 8th February and took photographs through 365 degrees...

Quite a large deer had been there before me.

Past the hotel on the point towards the Firth of Clyde

Swedish Houses under their sheltering hill

Up the glen

Creachan Mor in the clouds

Oak and birch wood behind the sandy beach

Coulport Naval Base on the far side of the loch

The low hills of the Rosneath peninsula

And back again - like me this weekend!

So different from thatched cottages and cream teas in the Cotswolds. I count myself lucky to be able to enjoy both.

Britain is beautiful!

Have you ever been really homesick?

10 Comments

elaine link

11/3/2015 05:21:57 pm

There's no place like home!

Freda

11/3/2015 08:20:43 pm

East west, hame's best!

cath

12/3/2015 12:52:14 am

Really homesick, yes on my very first night of sleeping over when I was about six years old. So very homesick my uncle took his bicycle and cycled me home through the night (12 km). He was such a gentle man.

Freda

12/3/2015 06:32:08 am

What a dear uncle to do that!

Cathy

12/3/2015 06:24:39 am

When I was first married & a military wife living in Germany, I was fine for the first couple weeks. Then it felt like the vacation was over & I should be going home. Only I was home...my new home. I muddled along until Christmas, when I became so homesick I could barely breathe. I never could understand how or why people became homesick until then.

As much as I like to go, I do like coming home to the safe & familiar. I almost give a sigh of relief when I open the front door.

Freda

12/3/2015 06:36:35 am

I was a military wife too Cathy! I see home as my sanctuary now and am ready to get back...

Claire

14/3/2015 03:33:02 am

I am homesick sometimes these days. My husband and I moved from one part of the USA (the roomy, friendly and relaxed Midwest) to another part (an outlying suburb of New York City.) We did this for family needs, and I do feel strongly that we have done the right thing, even if it's not easy. The ways here are different, and we are still working on taking advantage of the positives here.

Just keeping busy and looking for the opportunities for fun here helps a lot.

Freda

14/3/2015 08:50:12 am

You are so right to look for the new opportunities. I've had many moves and that was one thing I learned - everywhere has some positive advantage, even though they may not be clear at first! I'm sure you will find fun Claire.

Sarah link

14/3/2015 07:20:20 am

The worse case I had off homesick was my first night at boarding school at the age of 11! Being from a military family it wasn't until we moved to Dorset that I have lived in one place for so long and was able to put down very long roots! Sarah x

Freda

14/3/2015 08:51:37 am

Oh, 11 is a very tender age! I've been in our present house for a record 15 years now...

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