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Findings and jottings from a wee adventure in the orchard country of the Clyde. Short films and poems, to follow. FIDDLER’S GILL: LEE FOLLY: AUCHENGLEN: ORCHARD HOUSE: CARTLAND BRIDGE: DARNGAVEL: DURA … Continue reading The orchard country
This is the description given of the orchards on the banks of the river Clyde as given in the 1st Ordnance Survey book for Carluke.
Yesterday, with Baird cousins from USA, we walked up to Drumdruils. The wild garlic was spectacular and the scent heavenly.
When I left NHS Forth Valley in 2014 the team I worked with bought me an apple tree. The tree always crops well. This year’s crop has been better than … Continue reading this year’s crop
1859, OS map: 22 March 1864, Dundee, Perth and Cupar Advertiser: 8 May 1880, Dundee Advertiser: 5 February 1953, Dundee Courier:
Yesterday, with Sian and a Baird cousin from Rhode Island, we visited Drumdruils. Florence, who has been ‘Custodian’ of this farm and orchard for over 40 years now, was so … Continue reading as if it were the only thing
Back in the land of the Jeely makkers I feel braw! Saft-fruit is ripening now orchard-to-orchard. A lifetime on from Drumdruils and I am a hundred-punnets short of sanity. But … Continue reading “The Blairgowrie Juniors berrypickers’ weigh-in-lottery”
11th April 2022, Peter and Sian visit the ruins of Orchard and the last remains of Gascon Hall. Perthshire Courier, 6 July 1987: A schoolboy adventure, September 1884: Newspaper report, … Continue reading Gascon Ha’