Yes it's true, and I'm pretty tempted to sprint out there with the camcorder,
but I'm not sure Farmer Giles of Banff would appreciate my response to the
crisis.
This is our second farm B&B, and AHJ certainly recommends it: Expansive
but not expensive, ludicrously good breakfast and a livestock soundtrack
thrown in too.
We've zigzagged the Aberdeen & Buchan coast
once more, in hot pursuit of an AV Mac through which to bring you our video
(or at least some choice snippets thereof). We found one at the hospitable
Research Unit of Gray's School of Art, c/o the ever-helpful Ian Morrison,
though by the end of the day, every one there deserved prostrate gratitude
for their tolerance of us - what a bunch.
I was pleasantly (or should that be pheasantly in these parts...groan)
surprised by a chance encounter with Robbie Bushe, an old friend of ours
from at Edinburgh College of Art. He now lectures in painting there, and
he made us a cup of tea in the fading old - world gentlity of the staffroom,
complete with skeleton and leather sofa.
Between there and here there was:
A drive through Old Deer, a somewhat nondescript stop of B&J
A look at a white horse, in the hillside at Strichen
An excruciating search for a toilet in several hamlets.
A cannelloni bar supper.
