Living in the lighthouse - summer

Lighthouse Life - Summer!

After chatting to many passing tourists over the course of living where we do, we found that we answer the same questions each time about what it's like to live up here in an isolated area, looking out to sea and raising a family. It was then I decided that we should have a bit of a blog - so we can share our lifestyle with everyone passing by who wants to bring a little bit of seaside living into their own homes and families.

Summer is the absolute best time to live in a lighthouse. The creme de la creme of the seasons. It brings tourists, migratory birds and the wind finally dies down to an acceptable level. You can open the large windows and the doors and really let the fresh air in. Wait until I write about winter to see how much of a difference this makes!

Summer is the season of strangers in the garden and helicopter bees. You'd think living so remotely that you wouldn't see another soul (and some days we don't see another human being in winter), but in summer there are walkers a-plenty. 

We have an ENORMOUS walled garden, consisting mostly of grass. This brings about the summer problem of....the mowing. 

Most lighthouses are on the edges of cliffs or right next to the sea. This means high winds almost all year round and for some reason trees just don't seem to grow. Our nearest inland tree is a good walk away. That also means no shade and therefore if you get a rainy summer with sunshine, that grass grows at the rate of a rainforest.

You only have to turn around and it's already a meadow. Mowing our garden is like painting the Forth Bridge. As soon as you've finished you have to start again!