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Category: Family

  • Arctic Convoys

    There is to be a reception held by the Consul General of Russia in Edinburgh, tonight on the Royal Yacht Britannia.   This is to honour servicemen and merchant seamen who served on the Arctic Convoys. I note below some newspaper articles published in advance of this. Tartan Consul Book Princess Anne

  • Hirondelle

    A picture from lunch today.  We laid Dad to rest with Mum and Sandy this morning. I hope their spirits are soaring together. 

  • Family history upate

    These documents are being exhibited here in response to a query from Jimmy Black.  

  • Peregrinations

    Having spent two days doing  A Thing That Had To Be Done, I now have some time of my own to pop some cheerier pictures on here.   On Saturday we went to the badlands south of the the river, and firstly ascended Cairnpapple Hill, to find it full of some most interested cows, which…

  • Centenary

    Thoughts of Dad, Alex Miller, father in law, Granda, Great Granda, brother, uncle, great uncle, great uncle squared, friend and colleague. We will all be raising a glass to you today Dad, and Mum. This tune has been in my head all day.  And this one.

  • Rara aves

    I have so much to say about the past two weeks, some very overdue meet ups have taken place and I don’t have the words to express how happy most of these have made me.  Some pictures below, just from the weekend, including three of me, unheard of.  Firstly, my old friend Sherry was passing…

  • Salty eyebrows …

    …were what we all had yesterday, after an energetic trip to the Isle of May,  on board the RiB Osprey.  Conditions were interesting on the outward leg,  suffice to say that there is nowhere to hide from that salt water spray, even if you are wearing RNLI standard dry suits. Once we had landed, disembarked,…

  • Déja view

    I have an awful lot  to do just now,  paperwork is mounting visibly and I really need to find a new job, so the obvious thing to do on a sunny, cold Saturday morning was go right back to Vane Farm and climb that hill again.  Happily, although we didn’t see the reds this time,…

  • Gatherings

    Vast have been our peregrinations of late; to wit a weekend with the Folk Club in Blairgowrie and a sojourn south to Peebles, thence to make the acquaintance of Marco, Bendrago and Pearly Popstar. We enjoyed some happy pottering in Kirriemuir, saw Marsh Harriers at Loch of Kinnordy, and nearly an Osprey but it turned…

  • Easter Buns

    Easter Sunday in our house, a simply lovely afternoon. Thank you all for coming.