Burns Cottage

D decided that today was the day we'd go to Alloway to visit Robert Burns's birthplace and the museum dedicated to him. The sun started to come through the clouds while driving there from Perthshire and when we arrived it actually started to get warm. What a lovely place ! We had a great guide in Burns Cottage, unimaginable that a family with then 4 children lived in that small house, which originally would have been the right half of what it is now and then half of that was the barn for the lifestock, so starting out as basically a one room cottage with a fireplace to heat up the place and prepare meals . In the extras in the garden of Burns Cottage a straw sculpture of Tam O' Shanter on his horse before it lost its tail and a shot of the Auld Kirk which features in Tam O'Shanter with the tombstone of William Burnes, Burns's father.
I'm sorry that I didn't get to arrange a meeting with fellow Blipper  Greengirl, hopefully something we can do next year.

It's Mother's Day in most of the countries in Continental Europe, in the absence of the boys who have stayed behind in Holland D is taking me out to the posh restaurant at Gleneagles tonight (no, not the Michelin one, though I'm sure that's very nice too) :-) The knee and leg have had a lot of exercise today, so fingers crossed I can still walk to and from the restaurant later.

Thanks so much for your comments and stars for the most derelict phonebox I know :-)