Last summer, Big Ted and Peter had a ‘wee adventure’ in Strathbraan, Perthshire.
We stayed in Corriemuckloch [Corrymuckloch] by Amulree.
Own the moment [a wee film by Peter]:
Music credit: Trees And Flowers (Strawberry Switchblade cover) by Dave Leo Baker, 2022
Bedroom window at Corrymuckloch, looking out onto a delightful Scots Pine woodland:
In a delightful, evening-long display, in front of this window, families of swallows swooped and soared:
March 1834, Harriet’s aunt succumbs at Corrymuckloch:
1856, Ordnance Survey Book:
27 September 1866, Perthshire Constitutional:
4 August 1934, Perthshire Advertiser: on the ‘Battle of Corrymuckloch’:
HARRIET
Harriet, impossible as it is,
you led me to
Corriemuckloch.
You died so young, so long ago.
your childhood vivacity
hangs on in there
above the Newliston stairway.
Harriet, tonight I am here, in
Corriemuckloch.
It was here that your Aunty Lilias died
on her way to Kenmore.
Today, by the Quaich, I travelled to Kenmore.
Your portrait was in my mind.
Art, beautiful art, lives beyond us.