The kids and I headed north for a few days with my parents last week. Just for fun (and because I didn't fancy driving), we took the train - I think it was the first time the kids had been on a longish train journey (i.e. more than an hour) and in fact it ended up taking more than an hour longer than it should have done. There were electrical problems "due to the adverse weather conditions", so I'm assuming thunderstorm, and we were stationary in Pitlochry station for 45 minutes, though it didn't actually feel that long. Then we had to stop a few times further north (such as in the pic above, in which the landscape would normally be a bit of a blur) for the same reason. The kids were fine though, not too moany. And I got a free coffee out of it :-D.
The next day we spent at the Highland Folk Museum, always a favourite.
The following day it
bucketed down. So the Boy, my mum and I went for a walk in the rain and discovered it really was nice weather for ducks:
Especially as Mum nipped back to the house and got bread for them. That made us popular.
It was also nice weather for teeny tiny toads, about as big as my little finger nail. I can't quite believe this picture came out so well! That's a dead leaf it's half under, the stones are just the gravel of the footpath. You might have to click to embiggen, it's obviously a toad to me but the more I look at it the more I wonder if anyone else will see it. *paranoia*
And the last day was glorious! Our train wasn't until mid-afternoon so we spent most of the morning in the garden, before heading off south again. We even had the paddling pool out.
Fantastic wee holiday and it was surprisingly easy to travel with the kids. Though I made sure they carried their fair share of luggage, poor little beasts of burden that they were.
Saw this retweeted this evening: “@oceaneyes Now that we have 12 Doctors I'm going to use them to tell the time, it is currently half past Sylvester McCoy.” Well, it's 12 minutes past Peter Capaldi, so I'm off to bed!
2 comments:
Miss M looks very stylish in her movie star shades.
I didn't know toads came that tiny - what an amazing shot!
Those are my movie star shades she nicked! Though I must confess she chose them for me - cunning of her to pick ones that suit both of us!
I think the toads were probably more toadlets, only just a bit on from the tadpole stage and fresh out of the water. As we walked round the loch we met a woman my mum knows slightly and she said she'd seen masses of them, but we only saw a few when we got around to that side of the loch, so perhaps we'd just missed a mass migration uphill :-). Or maybe she had better eyesight than us!
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