Keep Moving Week 19

The good weather continues and with the benefit of a bank holiday Monday we headed down to the Grey Mares Tail and walked up past the waterfalls to the loch at the top.  The ewe we met on the path was having a bad lambing, placing herself on the path suggested she was not as keen to die as your average sheep and I reported her to the National Trust who rang the farmer.  After lunch in Moffat we came home via the Talla Reservoir, spotted the for sale sign on Talla Farmhouse and on a day like today really coveted it.  The house, outbuildings and 200 acres would have been in budget but (probably luckily!) it is under offer.  What a view though!  A few walks around the Borders during the week and a sit on Cactus on Saturday, apparently he loves a canter pole!

Latest Garden Update

Proving to be a very slow slog but definitely a big difference from the February photos.  We have grass, we have some plants and we have decking and some of the balustrade.  The wall to wall sunshine is certainly helping the cause.

Chamfron Updates

Rebecca and Chamfron by Dand have been at Dinnet this weekend, 32km on Saturday, SC1 Gold and Best Condition (again!) He then completed the pleasure 16km on the Sunday.  Lovely to see Chamfron Compostela looking so well (and really coloured out) in a photoshoot by Sarah Wendan Photography and Chamfron Mojito enjoying one of his regular lessons with Alan Davis.

Keep Moving Week 18

A busy week at work with a good few hours sat on the Edinburgh By-pass.  With it still being glorious dry weather I did force myself out along the railway line in the evenings and ticked off the ten thousand steps and all the phone fitness rings for another week.

Chamfron Outings

Chamron Agata de Fuego won the 30km at Tinwald on Sunday.  Ceilidh (Balmoral Sport x Chamfron Chipita) is starting to look like a proper horse and will be two in July. Chamfron Colorado is channelling his inner pack pony ready for their next camping trip.

Keep Moving Week 17 (Part 2)

A last day wandering around Naples on Tuesday including another trip under Naples, La Neapolis Sotterrata, a very different tour with Greek and Roman marketplace ruins that were excavated twenty five years ago.  Then back to Edinburgh and plodding along the railway line!

Keep Moving Week 17 (Part 1)

Three seperate trips underground in Naples; we did the Catacombs of San Gennaro and San Gaudioso and the Underground tour.  All very different, San Gaudioso has a gallery where desiccated heads are attached to the walls with portraits frescoed around them and a Frankenstein skeleton where every bone belonged to a different person.  San Gennaro was larger and more impressive and comes with the history of San Gennaro's "Miracle of the Blood" - three times a year an ampule of the Saints blood is brought out to see if it will liquify, more often than not it does.  When it doesn't it is a warning sign of disasters to come - Covid pandemic, severe earthquake, World War 2 and the last erruption of Vesuvius in 1944.  The Underground Naples tour takes you forty metres down in to the Greek aqueducts and tells you how they were used to save lives as shelters in World War 2.  Some very narrow dark tunnels to navigate, you wouldn't want to have indulged in too many pizzas or Tiramisu!