{"id":1937,"date":"2016-03-19T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T08:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2016-03-19T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T08:09:34","slug":"on-stirling-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"On Stirling Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love to take the dogs for a walk on Stirling Hill, just to the south-west of the village of Boddam, near Peterhead.\u00a0 The\u00a0local Community Association are to be congratulated for developing a network of paths on this little hill, among the remnants of the old quarries, the source of much of the Peterhead pink granite.\u00a0\u00a0 There is still a bit of the old main road preserved which makes parking easy and it is only ten minutes in the car from\u00a0my house.\u00a0 But it was just Poppy and me today, while Lily paid a visit to an old friend in Hatton.<\/p>\n

Despite the grey overcast skies there was plenty to photograph:\u00a0 the Buchanness Lighthouse peeping over the edge of the quarry;\u00a0 an oil supply boat lying off Boddam, waiting to go into Peterhead Harbour;\u00a0 a couple of Highland cows admiring the view;\u00a0 and of course, Poppy sprinting and leaping about.<\/p>\n

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Buchanness Lighthouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oil supply boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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She flies through the air…….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Where to now?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This grass smells lovely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Admiring the view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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