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First batch of puffin pictures!

( “Puffins!” )

More holiday pictures. Be patient, the puffins are coming but they’re a post or two away yet ;)

( “Mull” )

First few pictures from our holiday - The Kelpies, a pair of massive horse-head statues at Grangemouth.

( “Horsie!” )

As promised, pictures of our camping trip at the weekend.

The special thing about the tent is that rather than folding poles, it has inflatable beams which you blow up with a pump. I took a video of Rob doing this, but it’s currently too large to upload to Vimeo so I need to poke it with a stick and make it fit. If and when I manage this I will post it here just in case anyone is curious ;).

( “Camping!” )

Right, now for some pictures of our doings on Mull.

( “Mull” )

Usually we drive up to Oban and on to Mull in one day, but this time we broke our journey at Stirling. We’d driven past it many times and seen the castle from a distance, so we thought it would be interesting to go and have a proper look at it this time.

We booked into the Premier Inn (and that nice Mr Henry is right - it was jolly good) and had lunch at a little cafe opposite called Toast, which we can recommend enthusiastically.

Insides full of yummy grub, we toddled up (and I mean UP) the hill to the castle, passing this jolly frog on the way.

( “Stirling” )

These guys are so obviously our relatives. Anyone who’d even think about harming one ought to be sacked from the human race.

( “Redheads” )

Some of the mammals that live at Durrell

( “Furry )

Birdies! :)

With, of course, some ducks.

( Birds )

On the Thursday afternoon of our trip we had a “Lemur Liaison” - we were taken around and given a talk by one of the zoo staff about the lemurs and then taken into one of the lemur enclosures by their keeper.

We were told not to touch them, but if they wanted to climb on us that was allowed :) We were a little concerned that they might be disturbed by our presence, but they were so laid back I began to wonder if they had some special herbs growing in their enclosure :)

( “Lemurs!” )