Christmas Eve walk

This morning was remarkably bright and sunny, a complete contrast to recent dreich days. We had intended to walk from Sandhaven up to Craigmire and back through Broomhills or Mains of Pitullie. However,  flooding on the road near  Craigmire promised  even more watery obstacles   down the farm roads. Yesterday the road to Rosehearty was closed and Phingask and Murison Drive, Rosehearty, was under a foot of water as the Swine Burn predictably failed to cope with the run off from waterlogged fields. This state of affairs is not new,  Grey Granite's friend recalls it happening  regularly since 1929.

We were prevented from walking towards Peathill from Sandhaven by this flood across the road at Craigmire.

Not a canal but the road down to Pittendrum awash with run off from the saturated fields.

Swamped fields behind the Mill of Sandhaven.

Along Shore Street in Sandhaven some houses had sandbags piled up against the front doors, the coping stones had been swept off the dyke, the drying greens were strewn with boulders which were being collected in baskets and thrown back into the sea. There were great banks of tangle and a scattering of rocks on the pavement at the Mill end of the village.  All this is nothing in comparison with the flooding  in Stonehaven where the River Carron burst its banks with devastating results and along the whole of the East Coast where roads and railways were under several feet of water.