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Hi, Rusty!
I just thought that a lecture about the ospreys might be interesting; also to watch from the hides!
I hadn't realised that Dunkeld was so far from you.
About thirty or forty miles?
My Geography is poor......
Just an idea!
Next to Birnam Wood?
I have dim memories of Macbeth and Macduff.........
"Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane"
or something like that..........
Right, I shall catch up with "15 to 1" which I recorded earlier.
I need to exercise my "little grey cells"!

Hello, Elle!
I would drive to Dunkeld in less than an hour.
I would go by the back roads though, much quieter and quicker.
Yes, Dunsinane Hill is not too far from Birnam.
Not too far from me either.
Canmore allegedly defeated MacBeth at Dunsinane, but MacBeth was killed up in Aberdeenshire, later on, I think.

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, the true life story of Macbeth varies quite a lot from Shakespeare's play, doesn't it?
I don't think I realised that until quite a while after we did the play at school.
Retrospectively, I am wondering why we were not taught the true history at the time?
It would surely have made Shakespeare more "real" and "alive" to us?
Our daughter has sent us some photos and a video taken at YB's birthday party on Friday!
( He looks gorgeous!)
He and I were "dancing"!

We visited Cawdor Castle when we were staying in Nairn a few years back. The current building is much later than Macbeth, but the gardens were well worth the visit - possibly one of the prettiest woodlands we've ever seen.

Hello, Elle!
We were taught Macbeth was a good and fair king.
I have no idea why Shakespeare portrayed him the way he did.
But, it is a very successful play!
You and your grandson were dancing?
Great stuff!
I taught my granddaughters to jive!
They are good dancers.

Hi, Rusty!
At least you learnt something interesting in your history lessons!
We never "did" Macbeth!
I remember doing Ur of the Chaldees.......hardly riveting stuff!
My daughters learned about the two World Wars.........of much more use!
Yes, considering YB had only just turned one on that day, and has only been "walking" for about three weeks, I thought his dancing efforts were very good!
The minute he hears any music.......he dances!
I have probably said this before, but I just missed out on jiving!
I was too young!
I can do a mean twist though!



Hello, Chris!
I have a cousin living in Nairn, plus a very old friend (in terms of duration, not "age!)
Yet strangely, I have never visited the place.
I am told it is very beautiful around there?
I think it is not all that far from Inverness? where I have actually been, but in my misbegotten "youth".

Hello, Elle!
I'm afraid I did not pay much attention at school, but I remember Macbeth.
And I vaguely remember a Scottish king who was killed when his horse tripped over a mole, or something like that?
No idea who, though.
Maybe Alexander or one of the James's.
I think it was near Kinghorn in Fife.
I wonder if "Kinghorn" is named for what happened?
Fife is known as the "kingdom", too.
That is good that the young man enjoys dancing.
You'll have to put him in a boyband!

Good morning, Rusty!
How are you today?
Another fine day here...but apart from that , my morning did not begin well!
We set off for the park - my husband giving me a lift as he doesn't come on the early morning walk.
And found a traffic gridlock for about a mile........
I found out later that there had been some sort of a spillage on the main road, and a large area was cordoned off as a result.
Dog and I had to get out and walk!
I did eventually get to the park on foot....later than usual and with an added two miles onto my all round trip!
I have to go out again later, visiting .... but luckily in the opposite direction!
William III died after his horse tripped over a molehill.......but I don't know where the accident happened?
I think he died at Kensington Palace, though.
Right....... now, I am going to drink coffee and do a crossword!
What are you up to?

Good morning, Elle.
Splendid day here and the frost has melted.
I had traffic problems yesterday.
No idea what caused the holdups, though.
I looked up my Scottish Encyclopedia (an excellent book) and discovered it was Alexander III who was found on the beach at Kinghorn after parting company with his horse.
I think his neck was broken.
No mention of a mole!
He had been riding from Edinburgh to meet his Queen, Yolande.
I have no plans today, but will head out after the postie has called.

Hi elle

Yes, we loved Nairn. We had a week there while our daughter was doing an OU summer school at Dundee. Nice hotel, in which we had the prime room with two large windows giving a view out to the firth. Along the coast from Nairn are Cullen, where the "skink" comes from, and Pennan, which was the village in "Local hero".

I think I've said this before somewhere, but Jacobites still drink a toast to the "little gentleman in black velvet" as a tribute to the mole who did for William III (William of Orange).