- July was a very busy month - we went to Scotland for Tim and Lorna's wedding. We stayed with Neil and Barbara (Lorna's parents) before the wedding, then drove across Scotland to Crear, where the wedding was held on the beach.
Photographs of the wedding appear on the next page.
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- After the wedding we returned to Neil and Barbara's for just one day before we caught the train to King's Cross and then onto Welling Garden City so that we could attend Kate and Mike's wedding. John had been asked to attend the wedding in case Ian (Kate's dad), who had cancer wasn't well enough to give Kate away.
Fortunately he was well at the time of the wedding, so John was downgraded to the role of guest. Sadly, Ian died in November.
- We returned to Neil and Barbara's for a few more days before going across Scotland to the Isle of Sky and then to the Island of Raasay, where we spent a week walking almost the whole island - it is 15 miles long and three wide, so it wasn't difficult!
- While we were in Raasay we received the sad new that Bobs (Liz's mum) had died. She had expressly wished that if anything happened while we were away we were not to come home.
- This page contains photographs of our times with Neil and Barbara and our holiday in Raasay, but remember that in the middle of these events we attended two weddings!
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| Neil and Barbara's house and (on the left) Neil's workshop |
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Neil with a small organ he has made |
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| The pipes on Neil's in-house organ |
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Liz plays Neil's in-house organ |
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They often have hares in the garden! |
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| Barbara, John and Neil on a coastal walk |
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| Bass Rock - home to thousands of seabirds |
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| Neil and Barbara enjoy walking - so do we! |
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Made it to the top! |
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A woodpecker feeding on peanuts in their garden |
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| Novel hedges |
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At the top of North Berwick Law - see the next picture |
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| North Berwick Law from the sea |
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| A beach walk |
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| A dandelion seed head |
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Eileen Donan Castle |
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| Click to see where Liz is |
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An oyster catcher |
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| Liz spotted this attractive shadow effect |
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Fairy Falls |
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| We saw very few Highland Cattle in Scotland - almost all we saw were on Raasay |
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Calf |
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| Trees on Raasay |
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| Customs? |
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An even better set of horns! |
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| The distillery on Raasay |
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| A heron in flight |
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Unusual fungi |
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| A dog joins a canoe class |
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| Blue jelly fish |
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A typical Liz pose |
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| Near the top of Dunn Canan - looking down on the clouds |
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| A glamorous lady |
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Calum made nearly two miles of road, mainly by hand |
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| This cloud often stayed all day |
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| A rabbit |
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At the top of Dunn Canan |
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| Another Highland Cow |
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A grainy photograph of a sea eagle |
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| A cormorant |
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| What is John looking so happy about - click to find out |
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| Raasay House - the only place to eat out on the Island |
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| The second wedding of the holiday - us with Mr B aka Ian Broxton |
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