had hoped to join us today but his camper van couldn't make it over the steep bend
at Milton of Buchanan
he had composed this little ditty to entertain us as we walked
Gillian,Alison,Avril,Marion & Bruce
take the Red Route at Loch Lomond " In 1996, the Royal Scottish Forestry Society decided it would create a native
working Scottish forest. With help from the Millennium Forest for Scotland
Trust, it bought Cashel Farm, a 3000 acre hill farm on the eastern side of Loch
Lomond. The property rises from shore level to 580 metres, and therefore can
represent most of the different woodland types which are native to Scotland
following the last ice age" http://www.cashel.org.uk/ Hey Sean What's the weather like today
"well after a misty start we're looking at clear skies and light winds"
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Loch Lomond & Inchlonaig Island
Avril,Gillian & Marion head into the mist
Alison
A room with a view
Gillian realises there is no catering
Marion ponders the viability of living mortgage free
Time to head down to Balmaha
Old Speckled Hen on Tap and a stonking good Burger
The Prefab Four couldn't make it to Cambo to join Marion & Bruce on a gentle Monday stroll
as Leggy had legal issues to deal with.
Nasty,Stig,Dirk & Barry got together to sing a little ditty about Cambo's Tamworths
So on a very cold Monday morning Marion & Bruce set off for Fife
in search of Snowdrops & pigs. Here's Sean's forecast for today
"A perfect day for snowdrops & Piggy's but
the mercury won't make much of an impression so wrap up warm"
The estate of Cambo was granted to Robert de Newenham by a
charter of King William the Lion. His descendants took the name "de
Cambhou", and had settled in Fife by the early 14th century. Sir John de
Cambhou fought at the Battle of Methven (1306), but was captured by the English
and hanged at Newcastle. In 1599 the estate was granted to Thomas Myretoun. In 1668, Sir Charles Erskine, the Lord Lyon King of Arms and
brother of the 3rd Earl of Kellie, purchased the property. The estate passed
through the Erskine family to the 5th Earl of Kellie, who forfeited his lands
after supporting the Jacobite rising of 1745. In 1759 Cambo was sold to the
Charteris family, who bought it for their son who was studying at St Andrews
University. Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie (c. 1745–1828), bought
the estate back in the 1790s. A successful merchant in Sweden, he invested
heavily in improving the estate, building the picturesque Georgian estate
farms, and carrying out extensive land drainage. He commissioned the architect
Robert Balfour to remodel the house in 1795.His descendants continued the
improvement of the estate through the 19th century, laying out ornamental gardens,
with a series of early cast iron bridges. The old house
comprised a tower house with numerous additions, including a first-floor conservatory.
It was destroyed by fire in 1878,after a staff party. The present house was
built on the same site between 1879 and 1884, to designs by the architects
Wardrop & Reid.
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