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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:10 years on… [...]

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Crathes

By admin | Published November 13, 2006

Had a drive down to Crathes Castle yesterday. Felt a need to get away from all moving stuff for a day. Very peaceful and beautiful there this time of year. Autumn is less progressed there than here where most trees are bare now with the wind. Was quite strange as we drove round all the [...]

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alas poor Yorick

By admin | Published August 4, 2006

well it’s as good a quote as any! Been a busy couple of days – Davie has a long weekend so is not feeling left out of our activities. He’s putting up the tent again just now as the weather has improved again – seeing how fast he can put up the awful beds right now :) [...]

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were back and article

By admin | Published July 17, 2006

…arrived home this morning, still engulfed by laundry and unpacking and feeling totally exhausted but the longest blog post in history will be written in due course (took 198 photos, will have to be selective). Here’s a little preview – pictured incident was not my fault but an error in the fire alarm system I swear ;) [...]

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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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HE at Brodie

By Lucy | Published April 21, 2006

Since I last diarised we have had one really lazy, triffid infested day and one really busy social day. The latter was today. I was a bit nervous about it as this is the first outing that I have organised for the local home ed. group and about 30 children were booked for it. Catriona [...]

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Culloden and Clava Cairns

By Lucy | Published February 1, 2006

Lots planned for this final whole day away. Noticed the River Findhorn was partially frozen so went down to have a look. Talked about why certain parts were more prone to freeze. Visited Culloden Battlefield and Centre. Very nice sunny day for a walk all round it, the site of the last battle fought on [...]

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Brodie to Urquhart

By Lucy | Published January 26, 2006

From one castle to another today. Drove up to Inverness and down to Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle. I had forgotton that you have to go right through Inverness to get there – Charlotte map-read and established that we needed to find the A82. Did really well and got right through the town only to [...]

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solstice

By admin | Published December 21, 2005

Kids decorated the sitting room with lots of holly gathered from garden this morning. Looks very green and lovely. Had friends over to visit today. All had good time chatting and playing. Feeling slightly frazzled with all the festive preparations now. Have sent the boys out to get Chinese food. Fun and silly (but yet [...]

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friends and mince pies

By admin | Published December 20, 2005

Had unexpected visitors today who have not seen for a while. Very nice time catching up with all our news. We supported each other through some tough times in the last couple of years and it was good to see we are both in happier places now. Poor Lynda was made to sit and listen [...]

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