sudden drops aren’t welcome. they are like the sleepy jivver (jivver is jane’s word for the sudden jump that sometimes happen as you fall asleep as you do an involuntary muscle spasm).
anyway, you don’t want a sudden drop opening under you.
plenty of warnings here
we went to castle urquhart when we were in scotland, and i noticed these two bikers who were wandering round dressed identically with their biker helmets and visors down.
it was like they were some aliens invading.
i imagine if they were aliens they’d not be too impressed by our housing, and urquhart castle is quite fally-downy.
wasn’t there a doctor who episode like this ?
i think they were essentially peaceful. perhaps just stopping by for a bit of sightseeing whilst travelling between two distant planets (similar to the Italian tourists who were also there in abundance heading north through scotland)
eventually they left in peace
but i don’t think they were the only aliens as this person was wandering round with a huge hood making her look like she was from Star Wars. she followed the bikers out of the castle …
here’s the sun in the evening taken with a very an extremely small aperture
cruets is a word like condiment which should be used more in every day life. i managed to sneak in to this picture too.
on the one sunny day on our scottish holiday we went on a fantastic boat trip round gairloch harbour, looking for wildlife. we were hoping to see sharks, dolphins, porpoises etc, but they weren’t about. instead we saw fantastic views out to Skye and the Outer Hebrides, as well as back in land to mountains.
we saw lots of fancy birds, and some seals (notice one in the classic banana pose)
and here is a baby seal
despite not seeing anything with fins, the trip was great. we went with the Gairloch Marine Life Centre
when we got back to shore there was a seal in the harbour doing fancy things for fish
jane’s aunt and uncle kindly hospitality-ised us at their house for a few days on the way up to the highlands, and again on the way back. h’auntie barb set up a mini-tourist information facility for us which was nice.
what a great name for a farm machine
here is a sunset near helensburgh. i’ve got millions of landscape pictures from our trip up north, so just ignore them if you find them a bit tedious. i’ll try and spread them out a bit.
when you look at them, perhaps throw some iced water on your face and stand by an air-conditioner on full blow to get the true scottish effect
