Christmas this year was hosted by one of our sons and his wife so we travelled to rural Perthshire on Christmas morning, the small twisty turny roads were fairly empty. It was lovely not to be doing all the cooking and a good time was had by all. On Boxing Day we went for a crisp walk around the countryside which surrounds the nearby village. It was a wee bit icy underfoot in parts.

The photos below are of the wee village of Errol, if you want to see them enlarged click on the photos. The church in the photo dates from 1833 so it’s quite new, but the bells still ring out the hours and one of them is cracked. It sounds quite charming somehow. My strange looking shadow is towards the right of the second photo.

All of us in shadow form. We’re shy!

From these photos the area looks fairly flat but in the photo below there is a snow covered hill which I think was probably a Pictish hill fort thousands of years ago. The River Tay is not far from the path we were walking on and that of course is famous for salmon fishing, but nowadays any salmon caught must be put back in the river – carefully.

Well we walked off some of our Christmas dinner calories, I hope!