So many happy memories

A while back I posted about a book I had borrowed from the library.  The book was Hebrides by Peter May you can find the post here.This is a photograph from the book.  The reason I show the photograph is that it rekindled so many happy childhood memories. My dad was born at Boultach on…

I’ve been on holiday

I have been missing on the blog for a while as I have been away on holiday . . . destination Hawaii. I was on holiday with my elder daughter and we had a wonderful time.  We stayed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki beach. The hotel is one of the oldest in Honolulu…

Summertime in Metung

I have posted several times about the Metung Hotel. This time I am showing you the view from the dining room during the holiday season.  The population in Metung seems to triple during the holiday season and we tend not to go down to the village very often.  This time we were visiting the pub…

The Lake King Jetty is finished

Upon our return to Metung we discovered that work is completed on the Lake King Jetty, well in time for the Christmas holidays. Before we left on our holiday the jetty looked like this, not quite completed. This is how it looks now. There are now lampposts, and hand rails along the first section. A…

Kennythorpe, Burythorpe, Menethorpe and others. . . Tuesday travels

The first part of our stay overseas was in Yorkshire.  On our previous visit to the UK we had stayed for a short while with my brother and sister-in-law as they had a house swap in Norton on Derwent.  It gave us an opportunity to get a taste of Yorkshire and we loved it so…

Holidays and home

It has been three months since I last posted on my blog and there is a reason for my absence from the blogging community.  I have been overseas.  We have just returned from three months in the UK and France. I made a conscious decision not to look at blogs or to add posts to…