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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: David Paterson on August 28, 2018, 22:44:50
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We visited my brother who is retired but still lives on the farm where he worked. Part of the farm buildings burned down recently.
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Very nice overview Dave!
I like the cows, how could i not like them!?
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Nice mixture, quietly informative, and I enjoyed it very much.
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Great moody pictures ! Sad that part of the farm burned.
Weird trusses in the barn, we don't do them the same way here ;) Do you know about John Macpherson (DuckRabbit) a nice photographer, a Fort William "native" ;) ( I tend to like his blog reminding of my several stays at Mallaig and in the wilderness of the shores of Loch Nevis).
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Thanks for sharing David. Hope you are all doing OK. Our paths must have crossed, we have just returned from Skye.
We went to the Quiraing, cloudy skies so no star trails. Didn't need to go right up so low risk in the dark.
Take care,
Robert
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Weird trusses in the barn, we don't do them the same way here ;)
I spotted that too Jacques, my take is the tie beams had to be cut out and replaced higher up due to health and safety requiring roll cages on tractors used to clean out the shippon (cow shed).
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Thank you, Hans, Sam, Jacques and Robert.
Jacques - I don't know DuckRabbit and his blog but I'll certainly have a look. I know the Mallaig area very well - we had a cottage at Morar for ten years - and Loch Nevis a little less well; it really is one of Scotland's wildest areas.
Robert - nice bit of deduction!
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I spotted that too Jacques, my take is the tie beams had to be cut out and replaced higher up due to health and safety requiring roll cages on tractors used to clean out the shippon (cow shed).
I agree, but even in that case, we would have made a triangle of those two ex tie beams. We call that "une ferme en écharpe" ( a scarf truss ) :)
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Jacques - I don't know DuckRabbit and his blog but I'll certainly have a look. I know the Mallaig area very well - we had a cottage at Morar for ten years - and Loch Nevis a little less well; it really is one of Scotland's wildest areas.
Ah, wonderful scones at a tea room in Loch Morar ;D Did you spot the "other" monster of this Loch 8) I used to be a guest of Jim Jarvis (there's a row in his name now in Mallaig)!
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Interesting series, David, as your work is always is.
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Thank you, Carl - you are very kind.
Jacques - unfortunately I never saw "Morag" and I don't think anyone else did, either! But the story may have increased tourism by a fraction, as was intended.
This is the aftermath of the fire -
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Mmmm not good, >:( slates may be worth salvaging but a lot of hard work. Down here salvaged slates are in strong demand due the the eye watering price of new slates and the requirement by the planners for authentic local slates as replacements during re-roofing.
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Mmmm not good, >:( slates may be worth salvaging but a lot of hard work. Down here salvaged slates are in strong demand due the the eye watering price of new slates and the requirement by the planners for authentic local slates as replacements during re-roofing.
Yes, I did wonder about the slates - a hard day's work for two people would recover all that are useful, I think.
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In any visit to my brother, we always spend a day at the seaside - in Killin,we are as far from the sea as is possible in Scotland, so we both enjoy the change of scenery. The images were all made close to the little town of Cruden Bay.
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The vista of surf and rocks
make me want to be there
smell the water and the earth
hear the waves and the birds...
oh gosh, how beautiful is your country
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Wonderful David, love the wild flowers and #3 the rock with seabirds, the granite has a special distinctive look. We made Glen Brittle last week, finally and Christopher had a whale of a time walking along the river among the granite boulders.
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Nice poem Frank, and yes the scenery as captured is beautiful.
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the sea side series is very good.... and telling to me.... time to come back to Scotland
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Very nice series, Dave. The Aberdeen series is particularly evocative, especially #6.
Summertime, but still a little cold for me to go for a swim 8)
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Thank you all very much - Thomas, Bent, Robert and Frank - I have to say especially Frank - it's not often that my images move someone to produce poetry. :)
the sea side series is very good.... and telling to me.... time to come back to Scotland
Scotland awaits the Stelwag return. :) 8)
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Very nice series, Dave. The Aberdeen series is particularly evocative, especially #6.
Summertime, but still a little cold for me to go for a swim 8)
Thanks, Mike. I haven't swum in a Scottish sea since I was about 14; and as the car's thermometer was reading 12.5ºc when we left the beach, I wasn't tempted to change that.