In honesty I find some aspects of the summer months on social media difficult, especially seeing those who only appear at these times because they have exotic holiday photos to share (and really how do they have the budget to take adult children with them too?)
Needless to say this now launches straight into pot-kettle-black because a bumper week for #3goodthings is based mainly round a few days holiday in Scotland, including landscape, the Scotsman's family history, local social history and some cake.. #grateful
9 Sep
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afternoon tea at cloud 23 (a very late birthdays celebration)
watching the panoramic views while eating
seeing another rainbow
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10 Sep (in Scotland)
Wigtown, place of fifteen second hand book shops (and not much else), home to the Wigtown Book Festival and dwelling of the Scotsman's shoemaking ancestors
stones at Cairn Holy
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11 Sep (in Scotland)
driving past loads of fields of cattle and sheep and finally finding a whole family of 'belties' in a field by themselves (a breed local to Dumfries and Galloway only)
rain on the roof of the Leadhills Miners Library making the roof shine (it is the oldest subscription library in Britain, established in 1741 by a group of local Lead Miners)
Rab, the genial hotel owner and friend you never knew you had
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12 Sep (Leadhills, in Scotland)
being able to look inside the beautifully renovated cottage that used to belong to the Scotsman's grandfather (we happened to follow the new owner down the street)
sitting in the peaceful and beautiful cemetery at Leadhills, in untypical weather
exploring the
site of an abandoned Lead Mine outside the Leadhills where many of The
Scotsman’s ancestors once worked
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13 Sep (in Scotland)
a walk to another abandoned Lead Mine at Woodhead where more of The Scotsman’s ancestors once worked
totally unspoiled landscape on the walk with beautiful natural colours
seeing an artisan stone mason at work restoring headstones in a
churchyard
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14 Sep (in Scotland)
chance to take reflective water photos in Douglas
meeting ‘Jean’ who was at school with The Scotsman's father, her body is full
of stents but her mind is sharp as a tack
and leaving
Leadhills knowing we will return soon
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