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Wednesday 30th Mar 2005
13:27. Still cloudy. We decide to check out the nearby Glamis Castle today, seeing how the weather wasn't brilliant. This picture was taken at a picnic stop along the road (largely single-track) from our cottage to the nearest B-road. The weather was like this most of the time, really. Various levels of grey-ness, I guess.
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Not sure when we got to Glamis Castle . . . some time between 14:00 and 15:00, maybe. The pictures to the right were taken at 15:45, 15:46, 15:53 and 15:55. There wasn't really an option for wandering around the castle, it still being occupied and all, but the guided tour was pretty good. You're probably looking at this castle thinking, "Where's the portcullis? Where's the moat? Where's the defences, goddamnit?" and you would be right to think so. I mean, look at it - the bricks are almost pink, for gawd sake (and probably would be in sunlight). I dunno what kind of castle Glamis is meant to be, but it certainly didn't look very defensive. But, erm, interesting all the same.
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After the castle, we checked out some kind of 'ornamental garden' which had some pretty cool topiary. These were taken at 15:57 and 15:58. Here you have two different people, two different angles. I'm taller, hence I got a bit nearer the 'ceiling', if you can call it that.
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More pictures from the grounds of Glamis Castle, taken at (left to right) 16:17, 16:26 and 16:26 (again). Those gates are the entrance to the, erm, fruit garden, if you can call it that. It's now just a walled field and that wooden fence, that you might just be able to make out beyond that iron gate on the right of the picture . . . well, that is the edge of a tiny section that the public are aloud to wander around in. But, hey . . . it's not like there's much to see. No loss. There was a freaky little octagonal hut there, explaining a bit about the history of the fruit garden, but that was about it.
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M**** took these pictures (with the possible exception of the last one) when she saw a baby highland cow and got all excited. Then some vehicle (tractor) came along and it started leaping around (the cow, not the tractor), going crazy, so M**** took those pictures, see. The flash came on, hence the freaky green eyes.
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Then after traipsing about through the gardens, we had a wander around Glamis village . . . not much to do there . . . there was a museum, but that was shut (I think we were out of season) and, erm . . . a post office and pub/hotel thing. Oh, and this standing stone thing that I took a picture of at 17:20. Well, we think it was a standing stone. Could have been an old gravestone for all we knew. Glamis village wasn't very big, and we were told there was a standing stone somewhere. We went into the pub for a drink after the landlord finally found the right key to let us in.
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