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images from a cycling afternoon

By Lucy | Published August 4, 2010

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sea, river, Balvenie, vikings

By Lucy | Published July 2, 2010

Had a wonderful afternoon with friends, sea swimming and boogie boarding – walking over dunes beforehand. Then another busy day yesterday at a home ed group viking re-enactment workshop (associated with the Dufftown Heritage Festival this weekend), also visiting Balvenie Castle and Banff Museum (which is exactly as I remember it as a child, slightly disturbing).  Saw some [...]

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Tap o’ Noth and Dunnydeer

By Lucy | Published June 17, 2010

Practice triple climb of other hills! Tap O’ Noth first, then Dunnydeer twice. Related posts:beaches, jellies, jags and rollsScottish macaroonsraised beds

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Knight School

By Lucy | Published September 16, 2009

We are highly recommending Historic Scotland’s educational activities - great for home ed or school groups Related posts:Tolquhon and Mystic Woodsushirain at the beach

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windows to the Druids’ Temple

By Lucy | Published June 23, 2009

A corny title to a post again… joy So, lots of windows at Tolquhon Castle: (more tolquhon pics on the link at the bottom) Onto the Druids’ Temple at Ythsie, a great peace to be felt at this place: day enhanced by Wayne and Katie and then Ancestors of Avalon Related posts:Harry Potter, books and beans [...]

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steps

By Lucy | Published June 9, 2009

not feeling terribly inspired to blog, been up to eyes in the air purifying paint – nice stuff, but many walls to go… so just popping up these Fyvie Castle pics from last week else they’ll get forgotten about: camera then ran out of battery so no pics of baby ducks, swans and geese but [...]

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Findlater Castle

By Lucy | Published June 9, 2008

Been driving past the sign for Findlater Castle for years saying, we’ll find that later then… so today we did. Built right into the cliff like that, it’s most impressive. Then walked along the coast to Sunnyside beach, famed for it’s beauty and secluded-ness. Quite a few people there today. Was also assessing it for [...]

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over the sea to

By Lucy | Published March 28, 2008

Skye! Had fab week with old friends, staying on the Northernmost tip of the island, generally having a good laugh and fun :) Had great views up there both back to the mainland and across to Lewis. Come back feeling all relaxed and refreshed… so photofest ahoy! (mouseovers) more on flickr… driving down sides of lochs: and [...]

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chocolate and castle

By admin | Published August 3, 2007

Well I now know the full glory of having a vegan website. Yes it’s nice that I’m a ‘registered to pay tax’ person again, yes it’s great to make contact with others and share ideas… but today – the ultimate thing, I received some chocolate for review on the site. Not the first time this has [...]

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castle and pizza

By admin | Published July 29, 2007

Always a good omen, starting the weekend with an excellent pudding :) Went to see the Simpsons Movie – in retrospect it might have been better to stick to the original plan of waiting until the schools are back… we were packed in and it was noisy… film was funny though Some pics from the rest of [...]

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