Today I’m thirty.
To celebrate, D and I drove up to Dornoch yesterday and spent a wonderful afternoon walking and paddling on the beach followed by a dream-like evening snuggled up before a roaring fire, sipping champagne in a castle.
Wish I could spend all my birthdays in castles…
A Wee Bit of Cooking 
Happy birthday, Wendy! Thirties are a great time (though I may be a wee bit biased:), so there’s definitely reason to celebrate – which you seem to have done just well:)
Happy birthday! Sounds like you had a terrific day!
Happy Birthday! It looks like it was a beautiful way to ring in a new decade! I love the photo of the green rocks!
Happy Birthday Wendy!!! How romantic!!!! Enjoy your break!!!!
A very happy birthday to you, Wendy! What a romantic place. Your photos are really good too 🙂
Happy Birthday Wendy – 30th Birthdays are great 🙂 You get spoilt rotten!
Hope you’re having a great day
x
Happy birthday!
I knew there was a reason I liked you, you are a fellow libran, mines on friday! where is that castle, it looks absolutley fab, i wanna go!!
it was lovely to see your lovely photos, many happy returns
love meg
Hug! Happy Birthday!
And the way you spent it sounds just – perfect!
Pille – Thank you! Quite excited about being in my thirties!
Ellysaysopa – Thank you so much. 🙂
Deana – Thank you! I loved that rock. It was just so very green!
Pat – Thank you!! It really was!
Maryann – Thank you and thank you!
Claire – I really was spoilt. And now D is in the kitchen making me banoffee pie while I laze on the sofa! 🙂
Megan – My fellow libran, thank you! 🙂 The castle is in Dornoch, Sutherland – north east of Scotland. It’s a beautiful village and the castle hotel was out of this world!
Maninas – Thank you! It was perfect!
sounds like a perfect birthday – happy birthday wendy.
p.s. thoroughly enjoying blog
Happy Birthday Wendy! I have to tell you, I absolutely adore my 30s. They’re infinitely superior to my 20s in every way. So enjoy. And what a fantastic place that must have been. It’s so beautiful and romantic. So glad you had such a lovely time, but I miss the Scottish beach ; (
Happy Birthday Wendy !!! WOW, you surely got the royal treatment for your special day. How wondeful! Thank you for sharing the great photos with us! As to the last photo, must have been a purrr fect day! OK, I guess it was not that funny!
Happy Birthday Wendy and Many More:)
Happy Birthday. Looks like you are having a grand time. 🙂
Happy Birthday Wendy and lots of love! You are but a young thing!
Some fine photos, loved them all, especially the slippery green rocks and the cat, heck, I loved them all!
Welcome to the 30s. They’re a great place to be. Happy Birthday!
Man, I wish I could spend any night in a castle, not just a birthday, you lucky lady!
Alison – Thank you and thank you again. 🙂
Amanda – Thank you! That the thirties are great seems to be the consenus! Dornoch has one of my favourite beaches. It goes on for miles…
Deb – Thank you! You make me laugh. 🙂
Mainyacha – Thank you! It was grand indeed.
Holler – Thank you!! Cats don’t usually like me. This one stayed with me all evening though. My black dress is black no more!
Christina – Thank you! I could get used to the castle business. A bed without four posts just doesn’t seem enough now… 😉
How utterly lovely … many happy returns of your birthday.
Joanna
Wendy, Happy Birthday!
Hi Wendy, I chanced upon your blog on the lovely Erika’s. Happy birthday! My husband’s birthday is tomorrow so we’re in a birthday-ish mood and felt happy just looking and your lovely photos!
Happy Birthday, Looks like a great way to spend a birthday. I wish i could go to a castel on my birthday, should start giving hints to the hubby:-)
X Matin
Joanna – Thank you very much!
Anh – Thank you to you too! 🙂
Happygrub – Welcome, thank you and happy birthday to your husband!
Matin – Thank you! Good luck with those hints!
Happy birthday! You are soo right, every birthday should be spent in a castle!
So, is that first photo you ‘drawing a line in the sand’?
Katiez – I guess it was! 🙂
Happy belated 30th-day! What a wonderful day you had, and oh my did I liked the look of that castle – not to mention that cuddly dinner (?) friend:)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Pia – Thank you! Charlie was my post-dinner companion. Cats aren’t usually fond of me (think they know I prefer dogs) but he stayed on my lap ALL night. 🙂
Lucy – Thank you. 🙂
That sounds like an absolutely superb birthday. Congratulations on making it into your 3rd decade. 🙂
Annemarie – Thank you! 🙂
I miss Scotland! Happy 30th
Cheers
David
Happy Birthday Wendy.
Sorry to have missed it. 30 is a great age.
Lovely shots of your break by the way.
Lucy – Thank you very much. Wonderful to see you back.