Hi Kat. Run your eye up the green slopes in the middle distance to the left of your title photo and you are roughly at my house. Overlooking Renton. Views of Ben Lomond to the north. Dumbarton Rock (from where that picture is taken) to the south. Anyway I am not making contact to rub in the east is east and west is west. I came across your blog while looking for ancestry. Skirvings. You never know, there just maybe a clue somewhere. A Watson ancestor Janet was born a Skirving in 1780 to George Fevar Skirving and Catherine Skirving (born Vogan). At the top of my Watson family tree handwritten by someone is “A Skirving died at Culloden”. Perhaps not on the battlefield. I cannot find him listed on either side. A mystery. I have found several Skirvings of later years, some of historical note, but no family ties. Yet the “Skirving” name has been used as a middle name, usually in recognition of the maternal side. I just wondered if you had done in genealogy in this line. All from the east side of the country.