The Wood With No Name

This is the nearest clump of trees to ‘The Policies’. It is home to quite a number of deer who occasionally enter our ground.

Some woods have names that appear on the Ordnance Survey Maps but this is not one of them. The nearest name I can find is Twinkletree which was the name of a cottage nearby.

This field has still to be harvested, although just a week or so it was sprayed again. 

The extra is a photo from a newspaper cutting the California Golden Girls brought with them. The photograph is of Pat and 
I in the pulpit of our home before we restored the building. It was taken at least 40 years ago.

No one knows the paper and we do not remember the photographer. Our wedding did make the front pages of most of the Scottish Newspapers. One of our friends who was editor of the Scots Magazine ‘leaked’ the story.

The World’s worst is not in Scotland but in Mount Washington.
On the afternoon of April 12 1934 the observatory measured a wind speed of 231 miles per hour at the summit which was the world record until 1996.

We did take the train up to the summit and everybody was dressed as if they were going to Greenland. I just had a jacket and trousers and felt perfectly comfortable.

Pat explained. He’s from Scotland and is used to cold weather.