Grey Granite spent the last weekend of November in London, travelling down on the sleeper on Friday, returning on Sunday. Between the train journeys was a busy, social weekend spent in Kew.
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| Grey Granite was pleased to escape the interminable traffic rush and noise of London by snatching a brief visit to Kew Gardens catching the last of the afternoon light to do so. In the Gardens it was relatively tranquil, despite the screeching of the green parakeets which are now a feature of this part of South London and the noise of Heathrow air traffic. There were astonishing splashes of colour, Grey Granite thought that the rusty leaves on the tree in the background echoed the red brick of houses in the streets between Kew Gardens Station and the actual gardens. |
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| Quintus, standard poodle friend of Rufus, enjoying a romp in Westerley Ware a dog safe recreation ground between his house on Kew Green and the river. |
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Back home: a boat enters the Broch Harbour.
Returning to Fraserburgh on Monday morning , Grey granite was very aware of the crisp air quality, wide open skies and sounds of the sea, all of which she missed in London. |
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Monthooly Dookit from Peathill.
This morning, in contrast to her Kew Gardens walk of a week ago, Grey Granite and Rufus walked from Peathill along one the most familiar and tranquil of all routes, the circuit , past Lochbuy to Coburty, round by Little Fisherbriggs, Craigiefold and Holland Park and back to Peathill. |
The morning was cold, there had been showers of hail yesterday and wreaths of frozen hail still lay at the back of the dykes, Mormond Hill was thinly white as were occasional fields towards Tyrie and Boyndie. Walking up the Knoggan Hill road we were aware of the silence, so different from the perpetual traffic noise of Kew, broken only by lowing cattle and at one point to the chatter of a small flock of corn buntings on the telegraph wires near Lochbuy. There was a remarkable absence of geese today.
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| Bright flowers on a dykeside gorse bush. |
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