Staying local Sunday with my first trip to Newhailes House, an easy flat well trodden path around the fields, pleasant enough but a little uninspiring. The shell grotto is roofless and missing the interior decoration which would of made it so spectacular back in it's heyday. Weekday walks around the fields at home, nothing very exciting to report. Then to finish up the week a stroll from Goose Green at Gullane all the way along the coast before turning off at Eyebroughy Beach where the prop memorial is located. This memorial cairn is dedicated to the 15th Duke of Hamilton, it has a spy hole which perfectly frames the light house on the island of Fidra. The propeller, from one of the Duke's biplanes, points towards a landmark in Fife which he used for navigation. Walking back through Archerfield, the 55 million pound uplift makes it's a very different estate from the one of my youth where the highlight of the equestrian calendar was the "pick a fence" cross country. The Ormiston crochet queen is on it for St Patrick's Day.
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