{"id":1667,"date":"2015-07-19T19:37:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2015-07-19T19:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:42:50","slug":"up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"Up for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Up for sale\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1590.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1667\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>Lily, Poppy and I had had a most enjoyable walk in Drinnie&#8217;s Wood near Fetterangus in Aberdeenshire.\u00a0 The foxgloves, both purple and white were in full bloom beside the forest roads and I even managed to photograph a bumble bee as it rested on a bent-over thistle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1669\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1590.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1590\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1590.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1590-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1590-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our way home, I noticed a church building up on a hill. I had never noticed it before so I went to investigate.\u00a0 This was Pitfour Chapel, build by the Ferguson Family who at one time owned the nearby Pitfour Estate.\u00a0\u00a0It was their private place of worship.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years, as\u00a0I later discovered, it had fallen into ruins, but it has now been renovated and converted into a modern open plan house, and if you have in excess of half a million pounds to spend, \u00a0it could be yours.<\/p>\n<p>I am not entirely happy with this photograph since the daisies which I spotted in the foreground\u00a0 are not quite in focus.\u00a0\u00a0 I will have to wait for another fine day and try again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1666\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1600.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1600\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1600.jpg 667w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1600-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSCF1600-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily, Poppy and I had had a most enjoyable walk in Drinnie&#8217;s Wood near Fetterangus in Aberdeenshire.\u00a0 The foxgloves, both purple and white were in full bloom beside the forest roads and I even managed to photograph a bumble bee as it rested on a bent-over thistle. On our way home, I noticed a church&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}