{"id":2361,"date":"2014-04-26T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2014-04-26T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:07:19","slug":"scottish-serenade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Serenade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty short on updates, spent my birthday weekend at Blair Atholl with After 8 Mince, the groupies, Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, Dalgety Bay Folk Club and some very hard working hotel staff.<\/p>\n<p>Then a whizz up to the Highland Wildlife Park to see the red pandas, the wolverine, the capercaillie (finally) and the controversial Beauly to Denny pylon line being constructed alongside the A9.\u00a0\u00a0 Easter saw us walking round Loch Ore, then off to Aberdour beach with Sarah, Michaela and Daniel, then to Stirling to see Dad, and the best view from a supermarket cafe I have clapped eyes on, from Ben Lomond to Knockhill.\u00a0 Finally Edinburgh&#8217;s Botanics with the Frasers and Cooks, with many brilliant*\u00a0 questions from Callum and lovely smiles from Lily.\u00a0 The camera was swung about mightily but in the interests of bandwidth and reader tolerance,\u00a0 an eclectic selection lies below.<\/p>\n<p>*and quite possibly unanswerable<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2365\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/10154531_10203516480173534_3375467638842333952_n-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2365 \" title=\"After 8 Mince at BA 2014 -  where's Bill? \" alt=\"After 8 Mince at BA 2014 -  where's Bill? \" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/10154531_10203516480173534_3375467638842333952_n-Copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After 8 Mince at BA 2014 &#8211; where&#8217;s Bill?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2366\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4130138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2366 \" title=\"Pyloneers - Dalwhinnie\" alt=\"Pyloneers - Dalwhinnie\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4130138-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pyloneers &#8211; Dalwhinnie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2367\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4180200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2367 \" title=\"Loch Ore, Fife\" alt=\"Loch Ore, Fife\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4180200-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loch Ore, Fife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2368\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4190008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2368 \" title=\"Big sky, Silver Sands, Aberdour\" alt=\"Big sky, Silver Sands, Aberdour\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4190008-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big sky, Silver Sands, Aberdour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2369\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4210020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2369 \" title=\"Rhododendron, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens\" alt=\"Rhododendron, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/P4210020-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rhododendron, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty short on updates, spent my birthday weekend at Blair Atholl with After 8 Mince, the groupies, Yard of Ale, On the Wagon, Dalgety Bay Folk Club and some very hard working hotel staff. 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