A walk
Just got back from the most magic week in freezing Scotland, which could only have been more restorative if it hadn’t involved returning home to a freezer full of food, defrosting messily after its door was accidentally left open.
Here’s a walk between Blanefield and Killearn, which inspired various questions between the two ramblers present. The answers to which neither party had. For example, ‘where can we live in London that would be really near to this kind of thing?’
‘How can we buy a plot of land, build an eco house on it (with a turf rood) and sit in front of a roaring fire and a view like this?’
‘When we build an eco house with a view like this, will it be ok that the ground outside looks like this most of the time?’
We passed the beautiful Victorian bridges that form part of the final section of the Glasgow Water Supply. This was built in 1856 when the Lord Provost of Glasgow appointed a committee to find a clean source of water to help eradicate cholera from the city. If you’re a nut for civil engineering, you can read more about it here.
We saw huge trees, that are impossible not to describe as ‘handsome’, surrounded by all the orange leaves they’d just shed.
Then it started to rain very hard and the sky went all misty, and we passed a lady on a horse who said ‘it’s not very clement is it?’. A sentence I intend to use as soon as possible.
After that, we saw the first glimpse of snow this winter.
None of it is possible, that is why it is very important you move to Munich.
Oh I missed this, yes that sounds incredibly important and I’ll be informing the other half later tonight. Snowy Alpine winter here we come!
The photo of that statuesque tree just took my breath away. Makes me worry now that the British ash is under threat. I hope our trees can withstand it …. thanks for this lovely post – Alison