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Genevieve

On Wednesday, 21st July 2010 George Main put Genevieve into my room
Genevieve is my new computer.

I am absolutely thrilled with Genevieve and everybody withes me many hours of pleasure from it

Michael Bolster

Gardenstown 2010

Eleanor outside the Heritage Centre, Gardenstown. Thank you Eleanor!

Eleanor, see if you can find her mum when she was young

Gamrie harbour and the house's round the frount

Our Lunch

Gamrie when there were plenty of boats

Gamrie harbour Now

The good old Days plenty of Salt Herring in Barrels

Tea time at the Heritage

The new Tea room open 2.00 to 4.00 and 6.00 to 9.oo - Monday to Friday. It is called Harbucks

The St Kilda Log

Part of the Heritage notice board

Eleanor husband old Prawn Boat

the brave souls

Friday the 23rd July the photograph group went to Gardenstown also known as ( Gamrie ) to have a look around and take some photos, we had a grand day out and the weather was good for a change and we had a picnic lunch at the harbour. Eleanor who is one of the volunteers at the heritage centre opened the centre for us and gave us tea and scones and pancakes which was very nice. W e were lucky to have been able to take some photographs inside the centre, two of the photos up on the wall were of Eleanor mum as a young girl in her 20 ths she is still going strong; she is 93 years old now they must have had a hard life working with herring all these years ago. There is a good photo of Eleanor and her mum. Eleanor and her husband explained all about Gamrie in the old days, the harbour used to be full of fishing boats with sails, these days there is a few small boats fishing for lobster and crab in the summer and some pleasure boats. There is also a new cafe cafe opened at the harbour in a old warehouse, they are open for snacks from 2.00 to 4.00 in the afternoon and 6.00 to 9.00 in the evening it looks very nice, it is called 'Harbucks' Some of our group were brave and went out side the harbour on a small boat round the bay and some went for a walk round the harbour. It was nice to see the toilets open and the disabled toilet was nice and clean with hot water. Blog by Alan Gove

Gardenstown 2010

On Friday, 23rd July 2010 the photography group visited the wee village of Gardenstown

We all enjoyed ourselves very much indeed and had a fantastic day out

We took lots of photos

We went for walks and had a relaxez vous in the warm sunshine and some of us went out on a boat - I was terrified of this It was a sad moment when we had to travel back to BDS
Michael Bolster

Brians eden write up

Tatties growing from seed

Plums are ready about August into September

Apples are ready from late August to September

Our gooseberrys are ready about August

All veg ready in July to December

Lettice and onions at eden

William and John weeding at eden

This is John cutting the grass at eden

Nick in the raspberrys at eden George picking strawberrys at eden Strawberrys will run from July to 2nd week in August

keith and Donald starting to pick raspberrys at eden - Raspberrys run July to end August

Trip to Cafe Connect

On Wednesday the 14th July. Emma, Lesley and I went to cafe connect in Fraserburgh. George drove us there and back. We all agreed that it is a great project, the staff were really nice and friendly. They showed us the different things they are working on in computers, they run and maintain three websites, VisitFraserburgh, Can - Do Community Recycling and Robertson Road and a lot more besides. Afterwards we had some lunch which was very tasty and the service was great, so overall it's a place well worth a visit.

We had a look at Visit Fraserburgh, Robertson Road and the Can Do websites and we were impressed with the way they are layed out. It is obvious to see the hard work that is put into running and maintaining the sites.

Delgatie Castle

On Friday July 16th, the photo group from BDS went to Delgatie Castle near Turriff, Aberdeenshire. The weather was mixed with some sun and rain and we took photos of the castle from outside and its grounds.

The castle dates from 1030 and is steeped in Scottish History yet still gives the atmosphere of living in a large home. THey are open to the public all year round and they serve wonderful home baking and lunches ion the Laird's kitchen. There is self-catering accomodation in the castle and the Coachhouse.

The Scottish Tourist Board have awarded them four stars. They also do small weddings for 55 people and small conferences. There is also a Trout Fishery which covers over 4 acres of well-stocked trout.

It is not very wheel chair friendly as one of the party was a big lad in a big wheelchair and he could not get into the Laird's Kitchen. However the staff put a table in the front hall for lunch which was very kind of them. The disabled toilet was fine for wheelchairs.

Blog by Alan

jigsaw

we have transformed into a jigsaw...

Valeview Times

Valeview Times

The above photo was taken by Tricia Delaney in my room in Valeview and shows me using a paperless typewriter

It was taken at 7.05 p.m.

I am still busy in Valeview and I clean my room daily

I am doing a personal portfolio

I hope to recieve a new PC quite soon

Alisdair's slideshow....

my name is alisdair, these photo's are things that happened in my past. they help me to remember things i did. sometimes i forget because my memory is not as good as it was.

Bills photos friday Photo group