The Ettrick Shepherd

Novelist, essayist, poet, biographer, journalist.......his statue among the trees at Tibbie Sheils Inn.

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.” 


A good walk (7 miles) round St Mary's Loch - and a lovely day for it.  It is newly opened up as a path, but don't expect any tarmac - it is very stony and rough in places with beautiful views.   The last mile and a half is on and off the road a bit too much for my liking.


Extras:   You know, fellow blippers, that I am not a butterfly-person - but here we are.    No doubt someone (kath, orchid, pleach - will tell me what it is.  For I have no clue.)