Category: Travel
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Association by name: Tulloch Castle in Dingwall
My grandfather was a Tulloch from Forres which is 38.2 miles from Dingwell. Col’s mother was a Dingwall from Culbokie on the Black Isle. Her family lived just 6.1 miles from her namesake across the Cromarty Firth. Ali had driven us past Tulloch Castle last time we visited so this time we walked through the…
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Smelling the Sweet Peas and Rose in Dingwall
I picked the sweet scented Rose on our walk with the dogs through Dingwall along the Peffer River to add to the Sweet Peas that Irene placed on the windowsill of our bedroom. Lovely to spend time with Col’s cousin Ali and Irene.
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Kirkwell: home of discreet street art
The Orkney Islands are known for their archaeology – and I will get to that – not their street art. Graffiti is very much an urban art form in my mind, part of the gritty jumble of cities where built environments create ‘canvases’ in alley ways, underpasses, overpasses, abandoned buildings, and on unadorned walls. I…
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Projecting myself into the Neolithic Era
A Neolithic vessel, on display at the Kirkwell Museum,Orkney Islands.
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And what do you do on your holidays?
Col crawling out of the narrow entrance to the Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn, a neolithic burial site on the Orkney Islands
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Milk delivery Edinburgh style
Even in Summer it’s cold enough to have milk delivered to the doorstep in Edinburgh. Remember the horrible sun warmed milk they used to give school kids in Australia. By recess the cream congealed . I’m so glad you and I had a note from home exempting us from drinking it Helen. My stomach churns…
ART by Jude Tulloch 