Tundergarth Kirk

SWMBO and I made our way down to Lockerbie to meet up with somebody I have conversed with on a photographic website for 15 years but never met.
We met up at the local nature reserve which is known for its red squirrels and sat in a very plush hide for hours chatting. 
There were loads of birds, swans and ducks - but no squirrels. I suspect that it had something to do with the workmen shovelling stones into barrows and repairing paths and all the kids that were being brought out for fresh air since the schools are on holiday (again).
Eventually we left the hide and went for a walk and took pictures of fungi. Just about when we were at the end of the walk a squirrel turned up - with a very distinctive scar on its tail …. looking like a bum half way up the underside. It was then joined by another and they spent a few minutes entertaining us.


After that it was into town for a late lunch.
I can highly recommend Café 91 ….. huge portions of excellent homemade food, served be great staff for a very good price. While paying we were chatting to the staff and my companion was taking pictures of one of staff (he is a portrait photographer) who was exceptionally pleasing on the eye - although she didn't agree. She liked at least one of the shots and will be getting a print in  the post in the near future.

We finished our day by going up to Tundergarth Kirk which sits three miles outside Lockerbie and is where the cockpit of The Maid Of The Seas came to rest when the plane was blown out of the skies on 21st December 1988 ……. a date and place that is etched into my soul and changed me forever.

If you wish to see some pictures of the day, they start here and end with this swan.