The Knockie, Friday 2 July

**Edit, please note: Friday 9 July walk - meeting place has been altered - please see your emails **

thank you 

I don't know how many weeks we have until Christmas, but that holiday was nowhere in our minds on today's walk.  Despite the grey-ish clouds apparent up the Glen as we left this morning, the July summer weather in Blairgowrie and up to the Knockie, was glorious.  Gill had the only camera with her and, as soon as I get the piccies I will post them up here. Edit: here they are!

Due, I think, to the Flower Festival in Kirkmichael tomorrow, there was just the three of us from the Glen attending for the walk today, but Susan, Gillian and I did enjoy ourselves.

We meandered alongside the river, meeting a chap with his two dogs along the way. We again saw the waterfalls, ruins and cottages that, at this time of year, are obscured slightly due to the lush, green leaves on the trees.  The water level is very low at the moment - certainly the lowest I've ever seen it; you could almost walk across and not get your feet wet, so we  were surprised to see any waterfalls.

However, doing this walk today there was no rain to stop us from climbing up the hill towards the Knockie, and what a view we had!  It was wall to wall sky over the Blair-side country, where we could clearly see the wind farm, and the top of Mount Blair itself.

We weren't too sure of the distance yet to go for the Knockie itself, and our little feet were getting sore, so we turned around and came back down the hill, and into Blair itself.

We were very grateful to reach an outside table at Cargill's, where we had some tasty soup, sandwich and salad and the obligatory wee cuppy.  And, though it was hot and sunny, we kept our tops on!

But, it didn't end there for us, oh no.  It transpires that all of us love perusing the charity shops, so we ended our time in the three along Blairgowrie high street - but no Christmas presents were shopped for, I'm afraid!

** NEXT WEEK**

We have chosen to do the Ardblair walk  Which, if you look at the (map here) it shows that we don't have to walk all of the 5.75 miles, we can cut at the corner to make it shorter - unless you want to do all of it, feel free to do so!

As usual, we can meet at Kirkmichael shop at 9.30 am, and we'll organise ourselves from the Glen

toodle-pip, until next week!