Thermal

My word that was an awful title.

Anyway, yesterday was a public holiday in the UK, and despite the weather not being the best, we were all going a little stir  crazy cooped up in the house over the weekend, so we decided to throw a quick picnic together and head south.

A little way past Montrose is an old manor house called simply The House Of Dun:

It’s quite small as these places go, but nicely self-contained. The gardens (not the one in the photo) are a little scruffy at the moment, and the Walled Garden was strangely empty of everything but grass, but the avenue of Sequoia trees outside the house is amazing:

I know they’re a lot bigger in North America, but they were still quite something. The boys had a great time racing around the grounds and getting rolled in the grass, but as ever the best bit for them is the picnic, closely followed by spending their pocket money in the shop. They opted for a toy snake each, much to the delight of their mother!

From here we did our usual circuitous drive home across country, via the brown and white Caterthuns. These are two colossal ancient forts, around 2500 years old on neighbouring hilltops.

This is the view of Brown Caterthun from the summit of the white. It wasn’t cold, but the wind had to be felt to be believed, snapping my clothing like a flag. It amazes me what our ancient ancestors achieved, and I doubt we could replicate it today, given the same tools.

Roll on the summer!

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