Am I in the Scottish Highlands?

Well I am truely enjoying the colder snap that we are getting in the colonies right now.Usually we are boiling in our own skins coming up to the Christmas season but as I look out the window I see grey clouds and rain settling in for the day and they say that it will continue for the next few days - respite!
As well we know, for those of us that have been through a summer in this great southern land, when it starts to heat up we will truely know that we are alive!!
So, let me indulge in the crisp morning air and the ability to sit without a fan and air conditioner blowing constantly to make life liveable.
Ahhhh!!!

I DO LOVE HARRY POTTER!

 Did you know???
http://www.glencoescotland.com/p/v/harry-potter/

A very nice little understated Manor!

Now this is a Manor house!
We visited Vaucluse House in Sydney yesterday built in the mid 1800's.
It is well worth a trip if you are in the area - it is beautiful - just perfect as a small abode for us "titled" people.

Mmm...yes I could live here in comfort!

And every Manor House HAS to have a moat to keep the snakes out!!!

Converting the peasants one at a time!

Well..... today I feel that I can say that I have converted one of the local peasants into desperately wanting his very own piece of GLENCOE WOOD.
Woo Hoo! Good job...( I say whilst patting myself on the back )
He got so excited as he was talking to me that I thought he might drop his pick and shovel there and then and run to the nearest laptop to forward his details and buy up...

So I am hoping that Mr L...will soon become Lord L. and be totally swept up in the good that he is doing in securing this beautiful piece of the world  for the future of us and the planet.HIGHLAND TITLES.....LOVE YOUR WORK!!!

Woodland Creatures

Our Manor House was graced this afternoon with a flying visit from a little woodland creature - a duck.
Now you must bear in mind that we are smack in the middle of suburbia so to find a duck appear in your backyard is about as rare as winning the lotto...there I was sitting at the laptop when I see a small pair of legs waddle past requiring me to take a second look......
yep...a duck.
Now what do we do?
We rang the local ranger who suggested that it might not be a good ending if he was to come and pick it up as you see we were not sure whether it was a wild or a domestic duck...it could have ended up in the Ranger's pot for Christmas!!!
But by the time we had left it some water and bread it had dissapeared as quickly as it had magically appeared.

So much to do and an overwhelming ambivalence to it all!

I sit and ponder that Christmas is but a few weeks off - yet, to battle the heathens in the shopping centres is by far too high a moral price to pay.
I cannot bring myself to do it.
I would rather slash my wrists - the carry on in the car parks as shoppers victoriously "win" a car park space is enough to turn anyone into an alchoholic.
Normally sedate people turn into red eyed monsters who are willing to rip off your front bumper bar with their bare teeth for the spot closest to the front doors of the shops.
And it is set to get much much worse.
So much for the spirit of Christmas.

So everyone is just getting money - there...the shopping is done.
A highly respectable gift from a Lady anyway.

Supporting the Scottish Economy

My husband, Lord Arek, decided that he should help support the Scottish economy in the best way he knows how this weekend - as a dutiful wife I must sit back and watch.
I am sure that there are other ways of going about it but MiLord says that would not be nearly as much fun!
Indeed!