Category Archives: ancient stones

guinea pigs, gardens, castle, stones

By Lucy | Published June 17, 2007

At Nicola’s:    Kildrummy Gardens, beautiful, beautiful – had a picnic there:   Kildrummy Castle, evocative ruin in the mist: Grampian Transport Museum, always good:   Whitehill Stone Circle – we had to walk miles up a hill… me in totally unsuitable footwear… but it was worth it, very peaceful up there: Related posts:packingart, music, literature, [...]

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pile of stones

By admin | Published April 20, 2007

Busy couple of days – kids did some oil painting with my Dad (not going to be doing it near a carpet again!). Charlotte especially enjoyed that – Daniel loved all the science talk. Visited the Memsie burial cairn – yes it is a big pile of stones. Not much more to be said about [...]

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winter solstice

By admin | Published December 21, 2006

There’s been no break in the frosts – they seem to get thicker each day. However this leads to sparkling days of sunshine We gathered holly and fir trimmings from the garden this morning and they are strewn around now: Then we trekked up to the local stone circle – all captured on camera: some strange [...]

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Bennachie

By admin | Published September 18, 2006

Had a sudden terrible realisation this morning. We had not climbed a mountain or any large hill this summer. Beautiful day so off we rushed to rectify this :) A bit like childbirth, climbing. You don’t remember how hard it is until you’re doing it again (actually no comparison of course – childbirth much harder!). We got to the [...]

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lighthouse

By admin | Published September 3, 2006

 post of this title should really have a good photo to go with it. Sadly I am still a bit out of it with cold and on our recent HE visit to the Lighthouse Museum in Fraserburgh, I sent Daniel back to the car with the jackets. My camera was in my jacket. Yes, well. Happily [...]

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sheep and shunning

By admin | Published July 31, 2006

A really good day out today. The weather is definitely cooler – last night was the first night in the tent that weve felt a bit cold. I think tonight will be a final camping night for just now. Headed off to visit Nicola this morning. On the way we stopped off at Loanhead of Daviot [...]

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tent and owl poo

By admin | Published July 24, 2006

Yesterday we went for a really long walk in some woods that have been shut for tree felling for the last eight months. They seemed so disorientingly different in places, it felt strange like some barren wasteland. Below are two photos of the burial cairn that is found there, or the remains of it. We saw [...]

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Brodie

By Lucy | Published July 17, 2006

  We stayed at Brodie Castle for 10 days looking after things for my friend Lynda (property manager). A great experience for the kids, learning about the inner workings of a place like this. They had good fun with Michaela, Lynda’s daughter, also. I did not write up our daily activities at the time so [...]

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mesolithic

By Lucy | Published June 15, 2006

Had a nice HE trip to Archaeolink today. Just 3 families came but it was good – some new faces too. The day got extremely hot at times – 28 degrees in the car for a while (this is exceptionally hot for up here in June or ever really…) We went round on the guided tour which weve [...]

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salt lamp

By admin | Published April 17, 2006

Forgot to mention the craft fayre yesterday – got a couple of crystal salt lamps to ‘enhance the feeling of wellbeing in my home’ yesterday. Simlar here. Mine were only £6 though and made in Scotland, bit of a bargain! Something else enhancing our home just now is my lovely new vacuum cleaner. It’s truly [...]

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