New home in Dumfriesshire

Having spent a week with my friends in the New Town of Edinburgh I then moved on to stay with my other old friends from our Edinburgh office. And this was particularly exciting as I would see their new dream home.They had bought a large old farmhouse in a remote spot in Dumfriesshire. A lovely spot, but a bit too far away to be commutable to Edinburgh or Glasgow. So very much a weekend and holiday home at the moment.

It really is a super house, which is both entirely suitable to live in as it is, but at the same time a project. A project in the sense that one might want to repaint it, add furniture, do stuff with the very extensive gardens. But not a project in the sense that one is roughing it pending work. It really is lovely as it is.

The grounds/garden include a pond, but a sizeable pond, edging on lake. A damned river pool may be best description. Big enough to include an island and a bridge. And duck houses!

The courtyard garden is everything you could want in a courtyard garden.

The skies are full of housemartins, but I am not skilful enough to photograph one in flight. But the house is covered in their nests. One nest is neatly framed with putty. Just as one window has a suspiciously similar amount of putty missing. One doesn't want to cast aspersions on the housemartins but the circumstantial evidence of thieving is strong!

The interior is beautiful too

The conservatory between two wings is possibly the highlight of the interior. Wonderful views and on reasonably sunny days (as I enjoyed) lovely and warm. Just perfect for me to sit and read while Jae busied himself with mowing the lawns (a seated lawnmower job - the lawns are both extensive and in parts sloping)