I'm just back from an amazing and full and rich couple of weeks in Scotland. And my head is a bit blurry but absolutely buzzing! A good night's rest is the final ingredient to make sure the transition back into "Life in Morecambe" is as smooth as possible but I had a yearning to take a look through my photos so thought I'd do a bit of a gallery of some of my adventures...
So, it all started...with a traffic jam trying to cross the Forth Road Bridge. But enough of boring traffic: destination numero uno was the Monimail Tower Project, complete with historic tower, woods, various wooden buildings and shed moving (yes, that's a shed being picked up by a digger about to be relocated...):
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| The return of the feet - relaxing at the end of a day enjoying the evening sunshine |
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| Welcome to Monimail! |
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| The dome at the entrance |
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| Looking through a new partially constructed building towards the orchard |
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| The gateway through into the walled garden |
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| View of the community allotments from the tower |
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| The walled garden |
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| Shed in transit! |
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| Community allotments again - and a bit of the tower! |
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| Looking across one of the wood stores and walled garden towards the main house |
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| Another view from the top of the tower |
My day off at Monimail (which I wrote about
here) involved beaches, trees, sunshine, an ice house and an oil rig:
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| Dunes! |
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| Not desertey - but definitely duney! |
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| Unexpected sculptures in the undergrowth |
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| The ice house |
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| An oil rig on its way out to sea |
From whence I was over to Tillicoultry for a lovely catch up with an old friend (who I hadn't seen for
eight years! How did that happen?!), up to Forfar for a bit of teaching, across to Pitlochry to see family, a bit of time at The Hermitage as I journeyed south enjoying the amazing waterfall and then...to Laurieston Hall! Which involved more sunshine (yippee!), hanging out on the roof (well, I was just
on the roof - companions got to hang from ropes on chimneys), taking photos of taking photos, and heaps of other stuff I didn't manage to take photos of (like swimming in the loch, using the sauna and amazing pond plunge pool, helping build a woodshed, working in the walled garden, digging drainage ditches, giving lots of Massage, getting a shiatsu treatment, playing Bananagrams and enjoying LOTS of great conversation and amazing food)
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| The weather vane - which apparently hasn't moved for decades! |
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| Chris and Flis working on the chimney stack |
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| The walled garden from the roof |
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| The original "formal entrance" from the roof |
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| The roof...from the roof! |
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| The West Wing and tower |
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| Photos of photographers (and my feet again) |
Not a complete photographic record by a long shot, but a good start!
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