Blast Running 10K race - Silverknowes

 First 10 K "road" race in a long time. 48.18 time which was pretty good. 

Glendoick and The Pool of Muckhart Gardens

 We headed off the Glendoick garden centre and gardens near Perth to look at the rhododendrons. The woodland garden was great with lots of rhododendron in flower and an impressive planted gorge. We bought a few plants at the garden centre.

After lunch we went to an open gardens day at Pool of Muckhart. We just visited three of the ten gardens. One was very impressive.

Dr Neils Garden & Redcroft Garden

Cherry and Colin headed off by bike on Sunday morning to Duddingston for a visit to this lovely garden. Rather a long time since our last visit given how nice and close it is.

In the afternoon we drove to visit Les and then when to Redcroft garden in Murrayfield. A lovely property and garden open as part of the Open Gardens Scheme.

Orienteering

The local orienteering calendar has been springing to life with a good number of events on local parks and streets. In the past couple of weeks I've managed to do two Sprintelopes at Fairmilehead and at Pollock Halls and two parkland events at Dechmont Law and Corstorphine Hill. The first proper forest event is now scheduled for the end of June.

Balcary Bay Holiday

Taking advantage of the lifting of CoVid restrictions we arranged a short break away to Dumfries and Galloway staying at the very nice Balcary Bay Hotel. Nice place with fabulous views over the bay.

On the way down Colin got on the road bike for a tough climb from Abington through Leadhills, Wanlockhead and up to the summit of Lowther Hill. A tough climb but made it without having to stop. Snow in the summit. Cherry had a nice wander round Leadhills. We just finished in the nick of time before a hailstorm.

We enjoyed a nice 5 course meal each of our 2 evenings in the hotel and the fresh fruit salad was a highlight of the breakfasts.

On the second day we headed to Glentrool forest park. Colin changed plans from a summit climb to a slightly flatter trail run give the bad weather while Cherry had a short walk. We stopped off briefly at Kirkcudbright on the way back.

On the last day and journey home we visited Threave gardens. The weather was not quite a nice as hoped for but it was a pleasant enough visit.