Thank you my dears!
We've just got back from our holiday cruising down the Great Glen via the Caledonian Canal and I was really touched to find a little pile of birthday cards and presents waiting for me when I got home. So, many belated thanks to _likimeya for the fabulous sparkly card, latin_cat for Seth Hunter's The Time of Terror which I haven't read and will look forward to doing so, and for the gorgeous card with my own little boat, and also to joyful_molly for my lovely rose, I hope it will be an exciting year ahead too :) I've already thanked nodbear for my priceless original etching of Ned, and esteven for the incomparable Mrs Hurst Dancing, but it won't hurt to do so again, and many thanks also to everyone who sent birthday wishes. Consider yourselves all soundly hugged my dears :)
And talking of deaers here's a couple of ridiculously brazen ones we met on our way home yesterday at the Kingshouse Hotel on Rannoch Moor just beyond Glencoe. These are wild red deer but they have been so spoilt by the hotel staff that they now come running to take food from your hand.
Incidentally Kingshouse Hotel was founded in 1745 as a barracks for the troops of King George III following the battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion. There has been an inn on the spot ever since.
Boaty holiday was fab btw and I will bore you all rigid with holiday snaps at a later date.
And talking of deaers here's a couple of ridiculously brazen ones we met on our way home yesterday at the Kingshouse Hotel on Rannoch Moor just beyond Glencoe. These are wild red deer but they have been so spoilt by the hotel staff that they now come running to take food from your hand.
Incidentally Kingshouse Hotel was founded in 1745 as a barracks for the troops of King George III following the battle of Culloden and the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion. There has been an inn on the spot ever since.
Boaty holiday was fab btw and I will bore you all rigid with holiday snaps at a later date.