Talented Amy MacDonald

Well it’s nearly the end of January and I thought I’d write a small review about a musician’s music, one in particular is Amy MacDonald. You know the singer from Glasgow who sang at the Hogmanay party earlier this month. She has released her debut album This is The Life, released last year, and went to number one last week, but then was knocked off this week by Scouting for Girls.
I bought the album last year and have to say, there isn’t a song I dislike. It’s one of those albums I can listen to over and over again, it’s so relaxing. My most favourite has to be let’s start a Band. It starts soft then the vocals pick up towards the end of the track.
She’s first class and I like Amy’s music.

To get a taste of her music have a listen

This Is The Life




Mr Rock & Roll




Everything else about Amy

Edinburgh castle

Think these pictures speak for themselves

Edinburgh castle as seen from Princes Street Gardens

Robert The Bruce statue, situated at the castle entrance

The stained glass in the great hall

Edinburgh castle with nor loch in foreground, around 1780

The calm sunset

A photo of sunset in the distance.

The sun starts to creep through to reveal the light of day.

Old buildings

With the weather getting colder and the light getting shorter I managed to get take these to pictures when taking a drive. My plan at first was to take a look about for old derelict buildings, this is when I came across this building with a strange looking tree in front of it. Have a look and see what you think.

North east of Scotland water stream

Have been completing the Oliver Cromwell task, so I decided to take a break and go for a walk with the dog. Thought it would be a good idea to take my camera with me, hearing the sound of water I investigated to come across this small stream of water. So I have taken a couple of photos to show you what I was looking at.


The photo below was taken from the top, where the water started to travel downwards into the trees.

These two photos below were taken at close range, so you can see the water colliding as it travels over the rocks and down the stream.

Huntly Castle

Here stands Huntly castle, built where the Rivers Deveron and Bogie meet. Built in the late 12th century by Duncan, earl of Fife.

The first structure was wooden and built on a mound, in 1314 the castle changed hand and it was given to Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly. The handover was a forfeit due to breach of loyalties to the crown, it wasn’t until the early 15th century when the first stone tower was built. This was to replace the wooden structure burnt in 1452 by the Black Douglas family, while this was being repaired they constructed a palace on the south side.

By the 16th century, the 4th earl of Huntly, George Gordon, became one of the wealthiest men in the north east of Scotland.

Marie of Guise visited the castle in 1556. Marie of Guise was so impressed by the work on the castle, she felt he needed tamed to prevent threat. Later in 1562 at the battle of Corrichie, he lost the battle to Mary Queen of Scots. His castle was looted and further damage inflicted in 1594 when James VI blew up the old tower house

In 1597 earl the 6th was rewarded the title of Marques of Huntly, his aim was to rebuild the castle to make it fit for living.

Old farm tools

When I was out taking pictures last week with the digital camera, I came across this old looking piece of farm equipment, my first thought was?, it’s a plough and was pulled by cattle or horses years ago.

It’s very interesting to see things of the past still going about, these days you expect it just to rout, but the owner of this seems to of kept it well looked after and maintained.

Wind Turbines

Was out and about with the digital camera and came across the opportunity to take some photos of the wind turbines. Looking at the height and size of them, you aren’t going to be getting one of these in your back garden.

Huge, Enormous, Gigantic!!

So how much power does one of these generate.

How many homes do they supply electricity too.