Kenmore - Monday

Last one from Sunday first of all - looking from the bridge at the Kenmore Club:

On Monday, we made the short trip to Aberfeldy. We spotted this poor frozen plant in a garden:

There's a beautiful, tree lined walk up to the falls - now called the Birks (birches) o' Aberfeldy. It's a pretty steep climb and it was very slippy on the snow and ice - hard work for twa old fogies with cardiac conditions. We came across some falls and (vainly) hoped that we were near the top:

In summer, the background here would have been nothing but water. Rabbie Burns was inspired to write the Birks o' Abefeldy at this very spot:

Finally, after a lot of clambering up steps and icy slopes, we made it to the top. If you look carefully beyond Jo to just under the walkway in the background you will see some water tumbling down - most of it was now icicles and snow however:

We crossed the bridge and made our way down the other side - it was more gradual with no steps, but this meant it could be tricky coming down and keep your footing - the consequences were inevitable:

We celebrated reaching the bottom without further incident with this photo:

Lunch was at the lovely Watermill cafe and bookshop:

and you all thought I only wrote blogs in my spare time?

Our last adventure was on Tuesday morning. I had a lunchtime meeting in Glasgow and had decided that our best bet was to head back to the main A9 and go south from there, rather than risk the side roads. My SatNav didn't like that and wanted us to head the other way. After several miles imploring us to make urgent u-turns, it finally accepted we were on the A9. When we got to Perth, however, the damned computer exacted revenge by telling us we couldn't go on the usual route south of Perth due to heavy traffic and re-directed us via Edinburgh. We were now driving straight in to the sun and couldn't see a thing, particularly as our washers were all frozen up.

I decided we had to pull in to Harthill service station to clear our windscreen, but, blow me, we got stuck on the up ramp as a lorry tried vainly to tow its partner out of the snow drifts - that held us up for another 15 minutes, but we got to our destination eventually - over two and a half hours after leaving Kenmore.

Ross phoned to tell us there was more snow in Banchory and we shouldn't hang around on our homeward journey, so it was only a very brief stop in Glasgow - meeting, bite of lunch and then home. Didn't see either Dawn or Barry.