It burns uss. It buuuurns usssss!!

Mutterings continued.

Another whinge about the weather. "They" said it was going to be 23 and it was 25! I want a 2 degree discount on tomorrow's temp.

Had Leece and Rob over for dinner last night and had a great evening of food, Honey Porter beer (mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..), the Prisoner and MST3K's "The Beginning of the End" (giant mutant grasshoppers and Peter Graves!). The Prisoner episode was Checkmate, another good 'un. So far, Schizoid Man and the one where they infiltrate Number 6's dreams are up there in the top 5. The former really did my head in and I ended up not knowing my number 6 from my number 12. Very cool indeed.

Today's This Time Last Year:

The day was spent at two castles steeped in history - Scone (pron. Scoon - insert Goodies argument about pronunciation here) and Glamis (Macbeth association). For some reason I took no photos at all of either place. I have photos from the day before (Dunkeld and Birnam Wood) and the day after (Vane Farm Bird Centre) but none at all this day. Most odd.

Anyhoo. Scone Palace is the home of the Stone of Scone, wrested back from the Sassenachs in 1950, over which Scottish kings were traditionally crowned.
Scone Palace website. As with many castles and palaces in the UK, Scone is occupied and is the ancestral home of the Earl of Mansfield.

Glamis Castle features a lot in Macbeth. Shakespeare, as was his wont, got a number of the details wrong - Macbeth wasn't the bastard he was made out to be and actually ruled rather well for 17 years, dying near Aberdeen, not Dunsinane; Macca couldn't have been Thane of Glamis as Glamis wasn't a thaneage until 200 years later; and Duncan died in battle, not at Macbeth's hands. But apart from that....!! Glamis Castle website.

Glamis has the added attraction of Highland cattle. I'd been looking for Highland cattle every day since we crossed into Scotland and I finally got to see some up close. Tried to pat one but it had a go at me with its horn.