It’s pretty out there. Gorgeous. The snow was very wet, and the air absolutely still for most of the snowfall, so the snow is an inch thick on every single twig of the tallest trees, against an absolutely brilliant blue sky.
I love it.
The day dawns with startling white trees under china blue sky.
by CJ | Dec 30, 2010 | Journal | 29 comments
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I can’t post the link for the Landmark trust, but anyone interested can google it. they own loads of beautiful old properties, which mainly they rescue, do up, and rent out – including Elizabeth Barret-Browning’s apartment in Florence.
seems wordpress has an aversion for their website.
Nope, a link that appears to be a business gets caught in the spam filter! Happens usually to Spence. 😉 But I’ve got you de-tangled!
Ooh, PurpleJulian, how I envy you being in Scotland. Early Modern Argyll is the geographic and cultural area I did my PhD on and I’ve been working towerhouses into my novel recently too! Which one is this? One of my dreams is to own a tower house (or at least a Peel tower in the Borders), but renting one for a stay would be a close and much cheaper second. Glad you’ve been coping with the snow. Judging from the Scotsman (the main newspaper for the country), most of the place is flipping out. Of course, the news media may have turned into American-style weather clowns — snow ramped up to natural disaster level (whatever its actual amount) makes such nice copy.
If you want a nice, short book on towerhouses, I recommend Stuart Reid’s “Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish Clans 1450-1650” (Osprey Publishing). I just got it for Christmas and enjoyed it greatly.
the tower is Saddell Castle, belongs to the Landmark Trust.
by the time we arrived there had been no more snow, and after a few days milder weather it had all gone on Kintyre, but the Trossacks and Loch Lomond still had some left.
this place is where Paul McCartney made the video “Mull of Kintyre” look at it on youtube and you will see the castle, the glen, and the beach and beach hut too. made in 1977 it was when the castle’s renovation had just been completed. lots of books in the house on the history of the place, and I think the book you mention was on the shelf. I enjoyed a collection of essays on the archaeology of Argyll, and another on the history of farm buildings in the UK.
I may have to go there just for the book shelf!
yes, I spent a lot of time behind the sofa sitting on the floor in front of the book-case.
Christmas with no TV was rather wonderful!
oooh, thank you CJ, now you have all my attempts!
I should have warned you that a link would trigger the spam filter. My bad!