Carmelite House Hotel Banff
Low Street Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB45 1AY, United Kingdom
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Nannying at Redhouse Farm
Well the lady of leisure lasted about 3 weeks before needing to find something to entertain herself. Thank you gumtree for introducing me to a new method of contraception! 4 boys under the age of seven!
The Stephen's are a gorgeous family who live in Oldmeldrum which is a village about 10 mins from Inverurie. David is a farmer whose family has been farming in the district for generations and Sarah ...
Aye Scotland where they be talkin like wee pirates
... season here. He is also working for the NHS three days a week trying to convince porky Scottish kids to not be so porky. Chris is the Development Officer for Scottish Rugby in the area and plays for Garioch as well. They are both good craic and good to live with.
Inverurie itself is a cute little town. Its only about 20mins drive to Aberdeen but is rural enough (considering I nearly got run ...
Hoosie
... including, at last, the Leslie Cross which was in a little place called Chapel of Garioch (that’s the village name). The inscription revealed that six of the Leslie sons were lost in the first day of the Battle of Harlaw on 24 July 1411, 600 years ago. Imagine how many more Leslies there would be if these six sons had survived! A few kirks and graveyards were visited today and they turned up a couple of interesting Leslie headstones. So many ...
Day three
we woke up to more rain which finally cleared by lunch time The first stop was St Andrews golf course and museum hard to park as people every where thanks to the grad ceremony at the uni Left for Elgin and possibly visit some distilleries on the way unfortunately ran out of time perhaps tomorrow very tired to night early bed had a nice pub meal and a few beers mow definitely ready for ...
Skink and Bassets
As you drive into Cullen the signpost tells you that they are famous for their Skink.
On further investigation it turns out that Cullen Skink is a soup and it's made out of spiced haddock rather then short legged, neckless lizards.
Short legged? Neckless? I think Sammy that you may be a skink.
Cullen provided us with Skink, and three more books (They had a 3-for-2 offer on what ...


