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Painting, fishing, more painting.
Huge thanks to Jon, aka Tired, who volunteered to come up for a fortnight and lend a hand. We have redecorated 10 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, the small drawing room and the downstairs loo and still had time to buy a knackered French Foreign Legion Landcruiser we didnt need and get it stuck on some not very challenging obstacles. Video of this to follow.
Also thanks to St John (a regular) and Jonny (who works for Farlows), both super keen fishermen and lovely guys. They made a marathon after work trip from London, arrived at 5am Friday and were on the river by 10. Their prognosis? Excellent pools for Salmon, Sea Trout and brown and while a bit early in the season, could be great. The same opinion has been put by our neighbours at Rothiemurchus, that we have best fishing on this part of the Spey and it has just been underfished and undermaintained for a decade. Time to learn riverbank maintenance.
We’re gonna need a bigger bird feeder.
It might be the snow but outside the kitchen the feeding frenzy is unusally busy this morning. Two red squirrels, including a young one i haven’t seen before, robins, siskins, great tits, blue tits, green finches, a blackbird and a pheasant are all in for a feed. I will try to make a little video.
Bearings
This is Inshriach, a small estate (200 acres is small apparently) 5 miles from Aviemore (not quite) owned by my friend Walter and his family. I’ve seen dozens of beautiful pictures, hundreds even, but I asked Walter for one that best captured the essence of the place and this is what he gave me.
This is a map of the estate itself, which is marked out by the red line. You can see that it runs a fair way along the south bank of the Spey. This, I’m told, is all good fishing.
I added this final map for my own reference really, in terms of understanding where Inshriach is situatedin the grand scheme of things.
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