CARRY ON UP THE GLEN

 Monday 4^th July 2011

Carry on up the Glen :

After Pipa eating flowers and Electra searching the castle for any century old left overs, we escape the dungeon and made for the Glens.

We headed into the first Glen by the eroding stone steps that twisted down the steep contures of the Glen side.

Reaching the bottom we fought our way through the shrubs and over gown undergrowth. Where we then came to a double sided wooden bridge over a fast flowing but shallow burn and a baby water-fall.

We hooked a left through more over grown undergrowth where Pipa and I lost Simon and Electra as they had both walked way in front. We had a slight 'Hansel and Gretel' moment, standing in the woods lost with no way of finding the way back at a fork in the path. Ok, maybe not lost but anyway separated. Realising the gate on the left fork was open we figured this was a marker sign left by Simon. So we followed the path and after a few hundred metres we met back up with Simon – he had turned round and started heading back with Electra as the way up front was to risky for Electra. Simon said, “The drops are even to big for you” referring to Pipa who has a tendency to coming out of the most unlikely situations with very little scratches.

We made back to the bridge where Pipa couldn't decided if the water-fall was worth taking a photo of or not. Then Electra decided to do another crazed circuit over the bridge through the burn and so on.

At this Pipa decided she wanted some photos of Electra in the water so went to the side of the burn where she was going to go in and encourage Electra back in. Simon pointed out how jagged and sharp the stones were so she decided against this and just through stones in for Electra.

At first Electra was confused to what was going on as the stones started raining down into the burn. After diving her head under to look for a few she had a shake and gave up looking for them. After looking for a fun way out Electra had a “wee bevy” then weighed up the way she came in.

We were going to head straight back to the "Chav Mobile" but found another path down into the next Glen the steps were in much better condition as they had been recently updated.but they were still steep. Getting to the bottom we met two dogs who weren't up for playing as much as Electra enjoys. We double backed at this point to the “Chav Mobile”. Electra insisted on doing another crazed dash over around and through the first burn on the way back. Getting into the “Chav Mobile” Pipa let Electra in first who jump straight onto the seat and refused to move onto the floor so she could get in. Pipa got her back out the car and did as she should of the first time and got in before Electra.

After heading to the shops on the way home to get a drop of shopping, Pipa gave Electra a good brush before we headed out again. As You'll see from the pictures Electra Was in some state.