Glamis or Fun….

Sorry, Sunday was a wee trip up the glen rather than Glamis...

Left the house 11ish Sunday and headed up towards Kirkmichael, only a wee hickup as my wife thought it would be a good idea to Fry an Egg on the engine. After 4 trips to the toilet for water to fill the radiator up(small bottle), we were off again. Arrived at the farmhouse full of people and to find Simon looking rather sorry for himself (and the rest of them), later found out that they hadn’t been drinking water last night ha ha..

Sunday lunch was homemade Rooney soup followed by a venison stew, just what the doctor ordered. Off we went in the Austin’s Judy in the Ruby, Simon in his Ruby and me and the kids in the Chummy. We headed up to Daldhu on a relatively flat tarmac’ed road, at the end of the road we turned left towards Loch Loch. You may as well have a wee look on a map to find out how remote the Loch is. The roads changed very rapidly from good to very rough and rocky, grassy in the center soft ground due to all the wet weather. Talking about weather Dundee was dry on Sunday where we have showers. I thought I was clever, as I left the side screens at the farmhouse, so the kids got wet I had a hat on.

Ok so we were in the middle of know where, up ‘n’ down very rough terrain. When Simon just disappeared. After a short walk back down the track (we couldn’t turn the cars around no space) the blue Ruby was spotted going up then down then up with the doors open this time(if that was going to help!!) then down, Mmm clutch slipping problem. So after a quick spray of petrol into the clutch to clean the oil away, then a load explosion!! Off he went in a oner up the hill (I wouldn’t do this at home boys and girls). When I evently got to the top by walking Simon’s comment was ‘a bit extreme for a Ruby don’t you think’. After a bit further up the track we felt it was better to return to the farmhouse. Only a couple of little things happened on the way back, the girls nearly bounced out of the rear of the chummy while going up one of the steep slops and Simon required to stop for water as he was boiling the water in the radiator for a cup of tea.

Back down the road we turned off and headed up to a small very pretty Loch called ‘The Crannach’ where we stopped for a wee brake, then headed down to the farmhouse for a cup of tea and crispy cakes. Another great day had by all.