ecially enjoying our time here now that spring has come! The weather 
has been fairly sunny and roughly 8-10 degrees everyday...so the buds on the trees and flowers have all started to bloom. The mornings and nights are getting and staying brighter, which definitely helps to take away the winter blues...but we still hear that it's freezing back home, haha! Don't worry, we did get some snow here, as you can see from the pictures that we took from our kitchen window, but it only lasted a day or two!
Well Rob had his 26th birthday on February 21st, which was an eventful day! He playe
d a rugby game outside Edinburgh in a coastal village called Musse
lborough (because you can actually pick the mussels off of the beach rocks when the tide goes out. We would have brought a bucket had we known!). The game went fairly well, but my honey got quite a deep gash on his shin from being raked by a player's cleats. It was really quite disgusting actually to look at, because it had particles of fat/tissue sticking out...now normally I
wouldn't post a picture, but Rob insists...he's actually 
quite proud of it! So for those of you with quesy stomachs, look away. It will start to heal soon, if he ever stops picking at it!!! I've added a couple of pictures of his birthday night out at the pub as well...the flight suit is an actual fighter pilot's suit which Broughton rugby club owns now and uses for cases such as birthdays!
d a rugby game outside Edinburgh in a coastal village called Musse
lborough (because you can actually pick the mussels off of the beach rocks when the tide goes out. We would have brought a bucket had we known!). The game went fairly well, but my honey got quite a deep gash on his shin from being raked by a player's cleats. It was really quite disgusting actually to look at, because it had particles of fat/tissue sticking out...now normally I
wouldn't post a picture, but Rob insists...he's actually 
quite proud of it! So for those of you with quesy stomachs, look away. It will start to heal soon, if he ever stops picking at it!!! I've added a couple of pictures of his birthday night out at the pub as well...the flight suit is an actual fighter pilot's suit which Broughton rugby club owns now and uses for cases such as birthdays!Last weekend, on the beautiful Sunday, we headed over to the Royal Botanical gardens to check them out, after hearing from Abby th
at they were beautiful when she w
as there. We weren't 
disappointed! Although most of the outside flowers and plants had yet to bloom, the RBG has a phenomenal glasshouse, where beautiful plants grow, and it was amazing to see! A lovely place to go right in the middle of the city!
at they were beautiful when she w
as there. We weren't 
disappointed! Although most of the outside flowers and plants had yet to bloom, the RBG has a phenomenal glasshouse, where beautiful plants grow, and it was amazing to see! A lovely place to go right in the middle of the city!As for any new news, Rob has one more week left in his placement at Fettes College (the Hogwarts of Edinburgh). I'll attach all the pictures and details in another blog post after this one. After his placement, it's two more weeks of Uni, and then we're home for 14 days! We are very excited to come home and see friends and family, and Max 'n Ellie of course!!!
As for me, nothing really new has happened at all. We've been watching the Six Nation's rugby on tv, which has been highly entertaining (the six nations being England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, France and Italy). In two weeks, Ireland plays Scotland at Murrayfield Stadium here in Edinburgh, and we've managed to grab some cheap tickets. That will be a great game!!!
On Tuesday of this week, we're going to see Riverdance at the Edinburgh Playhouse, which was a Christmas gift from Pat and Mike. We're very excited to see this show, as it is supposed to be amazing!
I'll add some pictures now that we took today of Edinburgh, as it was such a nice day to be out and about. The picture are mostly of the Royal Mile and some are taken at Edinburgh Castle (with great views over the city)! Hope you enjoy them!
Can't wait to see everyone in less than a month now!
Lots of love,
Rob and Sarah xxx
3 comments:
Hi Sarah & Rob,
Looking pretty cool there on your B'Day !!! I have a couple of FP Suits in my cerar closet and a hat or two from RCAF. You can borrow them if you feel the need for a repeat performance anytime. You started winter early so now you are into spring and it looks wonderful. Still around the corner here but it due to start warming up a little. Keep the blogs coming as we surely enjoy reading about your life in Scotland. Love you both, Grampy & Granny
Hi Sarah and Rob:
We've really enjoyed watching your blog as it brings back fond memories of our trip over there last spring.I have a couple of suggestions for you to see where our family actually came from in Morvern and where they embarked on the ship Rambler at Tobermory on Mull in 1806. Could you send me your email so I can pass along some pics and other info.We saw many of the items you mentioned....and a few more that may interest you.
Rob, a belated happy B'Day (6 days ahead of mine!). That cut should really have been sutured!! It would have healed 50% quicker! No need to risk a Flesh Eating Syndrome or Tetanus!! Both seriously interfere with drinking beer and Football :-).
We had a great 1/2 day at/on the Falkirk Wheel which is just West of you.I would love to do a copy cat of your tour of Europe someday. A couple of books you might be able to find are "Morvern - A Highland Parish" by Norman MacLeod edited by Iain Thornber who spent 3 hrs with us in Kiel Cemetary at Lochaline and who would be most receptive to a visit and is a wonderful historian of the area and the Camerons. The other book is "Morvern Transformed" which may now be in Barrie.
Cheers from Gt'Uncle Wayne and Joan.
Hi again!
The book "Morvern Transformed" "A Highland Parish in the Nineteenth Century" by Philip Gaskell is ISBN 1-899863-09-5 and has some old maps of Cameron Territory in Morvern.Iain Thornber's book is ISBN 1 84158 237 9 and publisher (2002) is www.birlinn.co.uk.
I have the loan of a soft cover "History of the Highland Clearances" by Alexander MacKenzie, ISBN 0901824968 reprinted in 1991 by The Mercat Press 53/59 South Bridge, Edinburgh Which I (and Art) would love a copy if manageable and not too much trouble. It has a small part of a fine poem of 7 cantos about the Lochaber Camerons "The clearing of the Glens" on p 297 to 306.I was wishing that I had read some of these books before our trip but as it turned out we somehow retraced the history of the clan in a wonderful fashion. There is a very large Cameron History book available at the Lochiel Cameron Museum that I may order sometime. The Battle of Culloden grounds now have a magnificant new interpretive center.....we spent 3 hrs there and gained a new perspective of our ancestors fantastic abilities and exceptional Highland character.
I hope you too will see some of what we gained.
Slainthe
Wayne
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