Finzean walk and shop

I think I’ve fully recovered now aside from being a bit snotty with a lingering cough. We made the most of a sunny, mild winter day today to go for a walk in the countryside. I chose Finzean because I wanted an excuse to visit the Finzean farm shop.

We arrived at the farm shop first which has a café, a grocery store as well as a wonderful art gallery and gift shop. I would have been in heaven except that my family members are not interested in such places and I may as well have asked them to remove dags from a sheep such was their enthusiasm. We decided to go for a walk first and return to the farm shop for refreshments afterwards. I was pretty sure they could be tempted back on the promise of coffee and cake.

I think the hill in the distance in this next photo is Clachnaben.

This is Finzean House, owned by the Farquarson family who run and own the Finzean estate.

The stallion in the next photo is very well endowed.

We bought a bar of dark peppermint chocolate from the shop to give us energy for the walk.

The field with sheep looked very rocky but on closer inspection the rocks turned out to be turnips.

It was a lovely rural walk past farmland, livestock, and through forest. We finished at the café where the non-shoppers had coffee and cafe leaving me free to roam unimpeded. I may have spent more than I intended and I did accidentally drop everything as I was waiting in queue to pay but aside from that it was a success.

I finished knitting a jumper for Daniel yesterday. I had wanted to get it done for Christmas day so he could unwrap a knitted jumper on Christmas Day, just like Mrs Weasley did for her kids in Harry Potter. But covid put me behind schedule and I didn’t quite finish it on time. He looks very smart in it though. I’m very happy with how it turned out.