Exploring the environs...

Playlist

Craig Leon, Jennifer Pike, Sinfonietta Cracovia - Bach To Moog

The Supremes - Baby Love - The Essential Diana Ross & The Supremes

Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour

Various - Trojan Presents: Lovers Rock

Various - The Krautrock Archive Volume 1

Max Nagl Ensemble - Quartier Du Faisan

Various - Divine Music Centre • Volume 16

The Beatles - The Beatles (1973)

Sumner McKane - The Northeast by Eastern Film Soundtrack

The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Last Concert

10cc - I'm Not In Love: The Essential 10cc

Weather Report - Live in Cologne 1983

Kaprekar's Constant - Fate Outsmarts Desire

Pink Floyd - 1970 Devi/ation

Trentemøller - The Last Resort

Bennie Green - Bennie Green

Jaco Pastorius - Anthology: The Warner Bros. Years

Aretha Franklin - Greatest Hits

Ali Farka Touré - Radio Mali

Bennie Green - Glidin' Along

Manu Katché - Unstatic

The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome

Various - Piano Music of Our Century

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

The Flaming Lips - With A Little Help From My Fwends

Graham Park, Mike Pickering, Peter Hook & Manchester Camerata - Haçienda Classiçal

Various - Leaders Of The Pack

Various - A History of the Single - The 1970s

The New Percussion Group of Amsterdam - Go Between

No Horses - No Horses

The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)

The Doors - Best Of The Doors

Françoise Hardy - In Vogue

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos

Kinks - Lola

The Stooges - The Stooges

Various - A History of the Single - The 1990s

Brian Eno - Lux

Brian Eno - Music For Airports

David Bowie - Christiane F : Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Various - Family Affair Chapter Three

Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle

Return To Forever - Returns

The view from the office this morning...

Post a slap up breakfast - not taken together but just as and when people arose - Mary, Anne, Olly, Maureen and your correspondent headed out for a walk around the environs...

Good wall stuff...

Wonder how this ended up here?

Another story...

Hmmm...

Woah!

Technology and nature...

I liked this wee sheep...

Old mine workings...

I do like a telegraph pole...

The rail to nowhere...

Uncle and nephew in shadow...

Olly has a nose for those drugs...

Making our way slowly back...

We would enter these later...

I got the feeling the people living in the static caravan are possibly renovating the church into a home...

Another treat for later today....

A sheep, waiting for a bus...

The golf ball...

...and again, far off in the distance...

Home and Kitty had been working...

Some relaxation...

Then, more walking and adventuring...

We were off on a tour re the erstwhile lead mining scenario around these parts...

To the mine...

The sheep did not want to enter...

...but we did...

Horrendous working conditions and pay described and taken in...

Lucky to live when we do...

Out into the sun again...

The shed where the pit ponies lived...

Another not quite so scary doll in a window scenario...

The pole in the distance marks the top of the emergency exit for the mine - luckily we did not have to use it...

Into the miners' cottages - 1750...

1850 - featuring plates sent home by those lucky enough to have emigrated to the Americas...

And Jenny Millar, whose ghost apparently stalks the hills around these parts...

1910...

Getting there on the acceptable stakes...

Then, to the miners' library - visitors to these parts expressed surprise at the children's knowledge of Latin and Greek...

For once, mobile phones replaced...

Out again and in search of lunch...

The Wanlockhead Inn promised much but, due to an incoming party of 25 could not accommodate ours of 10...

So, a drive over to nearby Sanquhar, for some snacks in a Art Gallery...

There wasn't much here to be honest, other than the town's museum...

Back home through the hills, listening to Hearts v Aberdeen from Murrayfield, which a goodly number of our season ticket holding party were missing to be here for the weekend...

Back home to further relaxation while we monitored the nil-nil draw in Edinburgh, which, by all accounts Hearts should have won - Queens drew 2-2 away at Livingston...

In the evening, as Bob and Keith prepared big curries, we played some cards...

Another great nosh up for tea with tasty chicken curry and tasty lentil curry...

In a nearby house, a hen party were rocking into the night...

Things were wild at the Lotus Lodge too though, kind of...

We awaited the arrival of Craig and Arianne - the boy had been covering a game in Perth before they could get down to the holiday home...

Bob challenged young Blair to some poker and seemed to have won...

Although I think he borrowed his stake from his son...

More relaxation and chat and drinking...

...and bed...

A good day...

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