We love our life. We love change. Who knows where we’ll move next?

B&B owner Ruth Barratt is moving home for an incredible 18th time.

She is in the process of selling her business and home on the island of Easdale in Argyll and moving back to the mainland.

A former Royal Navy weapons analyst, Ruth, 58, clocked up six moves as child.

After getting married she and her former husband bought a home in Hexham, Northumberland, and then moved again after having the first of their four children.

Her husband worked in residential homes in Ayrshire, Kent, Hertfordshire, and then Galloway, taking the tally up to the late teens. Even after divorcing, Ruth continued to be the exception proving the rule that people who move around a lot build closer relationships.

She and partner Dughall Macleod love the feeling of change and moved to Easdale, which has a population of just 60, after a spell in Bankfoot, Perthshire.

Ruth said: “With Dughall, this will be our second move within five years.

“But we are both keen on it and we are together on it.

“I don’t think of it as being supportive as such, it is just living life together.”

Ruth, who hasn’t decided on where to move to yet, added: “I am one of these people who doesn’t really get stressed.

“I just take things as they come.

“The only stressful thing about moving is the state I am actually in at the moment, which is where you want to find the ideal house.

“You are looking constantly. I just love change, I suppose.

“All through my childhood we were moving, and through my adult life.

“So I never felt that I belonged anywhere.

“People say to me where are you from? That depends on the question...

“I don’t belong anywhere.”