Recycled teenager

Well now it is official and I have the pass to prove it - bus pass that is :)
Last time I had one of those I was a teenager at Thurso High School travelling in from Buldoo Downreay so I think that makes me a recycled teenager.  Don't worry I won't be a typical teenager (if there is such a thing - I think they get a bad press as most of the teenagers I know work hard and play hard too) I still intend to get up in time in the mornings to do my turn, bed and breakfast,  would not be the same without me 'helping' Sid.
I have started my 'bucket list' of places to go on the bus so all suggestions welcome!

The Tulach

I scribble a bit when I make time and someone has suggested I put some in my blog.  This little poem comes from a childhood memory of rolling our eggs down the Tulach, that  being the Gaelic name for the little hill on the old airdrome in the north, Caithness, where we gathered on Easter morning.
  This site now rings to the blasts of drills and warning sirens as enormous pits are being dug into the slate  rocks below to take the radioactive waste from nearby Dounreay and probably many other places world wide.

The Tulach

The Tulach is a place of death

In Stone Age times bodies at the end of life

Curled back into foetal size and hid

Throughout aeons of time, until one day

An accidental kick uncovered a bone.

Then learned men from the South took

Hold of pick and trowel and dug away

Discovering the pit where the seashells

Of meals long eaten and discarded lay.

Now shells of chocolate and tea stained eggs

Lie scattered at the base of this ancient mound

A childhood place on Easter morn where bairns gathered

To roll their eggs of birth and celebration, fun.

Another time; this time, a place for life, begun.

What's on in and around Callander

Easter and an egg hunt with a difference - join in this April for Loch Katrine's daily Easter Egg Hunt - free with Cruise Tickets for the Steamship Sir Walter Scott or the Lady of the Lake visit www.lochkatrine.com  for details.  Sid and I were a little early for this when we took our trip on Loch Katrine last week but how lucky are we to be able to enjoy the fantastic scenery all around us and even some sunshine.  Definitely recommend this trip to our visitors and especially now that it has achieved 4* Visit Scotland status.
A little more home grown is the Callander Sport and Adventure Project where plans are in place to run various events over the coming months.  If you enjoy running then their next event, Callander 10k on 29 April might suit you - this dynamic tour of Callander and its spectacular surroundings is one of Britain's most stunning 10k races.  Aprox. 60% trail / 40% tarmac. Enter at www.entrycentral.com
 If I was more sporty I would try it myself but friends will tell you that even when I had my gym membership it was the coffee shop which was the favourite place.  To be fair though we do a lot of walking and enjoyed our spring walk up to the Bracklinn Falls - the long way round via the Keltie Caravan park.