Greyfriars Church and Greyfriars Bobby

As my mum was in the Eye Pavilion on Wednesday past, my husband and I took ourselves down to Greyfriars Church for a walk around the churchyard and the church.  It had been raining but the weather had cheered up a little and the sun shone through the clouds for a while.  I had walked through the churchyard in the past during the evening, but had never wandered around in daylight nor had I visited the church itself.  As usual, I had the camera with me, so I took a few photos while I had the chance of a little sunshine.

Greyfriars Church and the Flodden Wall

Greyfriars Church

Greyfriars Church

Greyfriars Bobby's gravestone at Greyfriars Church

Interior of Greyfriars Church

Interior of Greyfriars Church

Edinburgh Castle from Greyfriars Church

Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby

Blasts from the past!!

I recently went into the attic to look for some photos and spent loads of time just having a good old laugh at some of them.  Here are just one or two black and white photos that I came across.  I could post many more, but these will do for the time being!!

Bathgate Gala Day 1961

Dancing Practice Boghall Primary School 1964

Netball Team Boghall Primary School 1965

Aberfoyle School Camp 1965

The importance of a multi-tool on holiday!!

I cannot pack light!!  That's just a fact of life!!  Anyway, amongst the many bits and bobs I pack on every holiday, is a small multi-tool.  Not for me to use however - that's a boys' toy, not a girls'!!!

Well, this year it came in handy while staying at the Hilton of all places.  The hotel room doors have rigid metal fixtures that lock the door when you're in the room - they're like a security chain but it's a rigid bar rather than a chain.  Well, ours didn't work.  There's no way it would fit together.  So, the boys compared the fittings on both room doors and also on the internal communicating door between our rooms, and discovered that someone had fitted our security thingymabob the wrong way round.  So, it was into the case for the multi-tool where they proceeded to use it to take the thing to bits and fit it back on the correct way round!!  Hey presto!!  It was all working as it should.

I wonder how long it had been like that?

A spot of holiday DIY!!

New Holiday Blog

I've been a little bit busy since I got back from a holiday in Luxor, but have started writing a new holiday blog all about it.  If you're interested in reading it, it's not finished yet, but you're welcome to keep popping in to read it as I try to get it all up-to-date!!

http://myluxorholiday2013.blogspot.co.uk/

Gosford Estate

We recently had another walk round Gosford estate, but it was a bit of a grey day, so there wasn't much colour around, and it was pretty cold.  We did remember this time however, to take some bread with us to feed the swans.  After our walk we had rather a nice latte coffee at The Bothy, which was very welcome on this cold winter's day.

As normal, I had the camera with me and took a few shots - here are what I think are the best of them:

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a large static log does!!

Young swan - or is it still a cygnet at this stage??

Swan family

Gosford House

Came across this structure - no idea what it is or what it was used for!

Looking towards Gosford House

It was very muddy underfoot!

Big Garden Birdwatch - 2013

I took part in the Big Garden Bird watch this year again at the weekend and tried to get some photos of the birds that I was trying to count.  It's very difficult trying to count them in any case as they refuse to stay still, but trying to count and take photos at the same time is pretty much impossible!!  Here are a few of my efforts

Goldfinch

Rocky Robin

Sparrow - and I think the 'ghost' is a female chaffinch

Spot the sparrow!

Wood Pigeon

Starling feeding

Starling

Male and female chaffinches

The Work of Jack Frost

Hello folks!!  I've been a bit lax recently in posting anything, so thought I'd better add something today!  A couple or so weeks ago we had some overnight frost so I went out with the camera to see if I could catch anything unusual with my add-on macro lens, and this was the result

There hasn't been much frost since that day, so I haven't been able to try and experiment any more.  I'll just have to wait for Jack Frost coming back!!