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Before the beginning
... just waiting on the flights being booked, visas organised etc whilst trying to organise my flat to be rented out whilst im away etc.
The job I got offered is working as manager for a childrens centre near Blantyre, so I plan on doing as much as I can there and during my time off :) any advice please send ...
Discovering My Roots in Aberdeenshire
... around it. It is situated on a cliff that is almost separate from the land, so that you have to walk far down and then back up to get into the Castle. The cliff is at the end of two farm fields, right on the water. You can look out the Castle windows to the cliff dropping 100s of feet into the water, and at the smaller cliffs and fields of the Scottish east coast.
After the Castle, the others dropped me off in Stonehaven, a small coastal town just north of ...
The end of the road.
Well folks, we have come to the end of our journey together. I have such mixed emotions. Part of me is, of course, ready to be home with Doug, the kids and the grandkids. Ready to be back in my own space and bed and back to a "normal" routine. The other half of me is heart-broken at the though of leaving! It has been a magical trip, a thousand times better than I could have even imagined! I hate leaving this beautiful country and the friends here.....then there's Lorraine...not even going ...
A visit to the past.
Today I went to Kintore and "Heathbank" (Heathbank is the name of the house.) Heathbank was my home/home base from 1979 -1993. I was a bit nervous before I went, so many memories...as is always the case with life, some good, some not so good. Today was all about the good. It was so wonderful to see my nieces, Marie and Nikki. I had not seen Marie since ...
Hatton Village and Stone Circles
This morning was worse than during the night. 60 mile an hour winds...sideways rain...seriously awful! By noon it had slowed down to a dull roar so we headed off to find some standing stones. We first went through the village of Hatton which is where we lived when we first returned to Scotland in 1990. We drove past the house we lived in and then past the school where ...
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