Friends in high places
Nov. 22nd, 2020 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe haven't been following Channel 5's Secret Scotland with Susan Calman: I am resistant those documentaries which give the ompression they actually find their subject matter rather boring, but hopes that if they move fast enough - and maybe put a celebrity between the viewer and the topic - no-one will notice. Or perhaps I'm just jealous of all these people who are still able to travel when I am told not to ... But D. pointed out that one episode was visiting Bute, where we spent a weekend together in the summer, so we made an exception.
It was pretty much as expected. There was only time to see one thing on Bute, which was - inevitably - Mount Stuart House. It was, admittedly, absolutely stunning, and I see why D. was so disappointed that it was closed (see above, jealous). Then Susan was off to Kilmartin Glen (here are some standing stones, here's a burial site, now I'm going to cast a copper axe-head...).
The programme did have one surprise, though, quite early on. Susan visits Inverary, to indulge an interest in change ringing at the bell tower there, and is greeted by Ringing Master Ruth Marshall. Wasn't the daughter of our bell-ringing friends called Ruth? Obligingly, this Ruth had brought in her parents to help her demonstrate, and a little careful back-and-forth rewinding enabled us to freeze the one fleeting glimpse of parents hauling on ropes, and it was indeed T and M.
I was quite disproportionately pleased at this sign of life going on.
It was pretty much as expected. There was only time to see one thing on Bute, which was - inevitably - Mount Stuart House. It was, admittedly, absolutely stunning, and I see why D. was so disappointed that it was closed (see above, jealous). Then Susan was off to Kilmartin Glen (here are some standing stones, here's a burial site, now I'm going to cast a copper axe-head...).
The programme did have one surprise, though, quite early on. Susan visits Inverary, to indulge an interest in change ringing at the bell tower there, and is greeted by Ringing Master Ruth Marshall. Wasn't the daughter of our bell-ringing friends called Ruth? Obligingly, this Ruth had brought in her parents to help her demonstrate, and a little careful back-and-forth rewinding enabled us to freeze the one fleeting glimpse of parents hauling on ropes, and it was indeed T and M.
I was quite disproportionately pleased at this sign of life going on.
