[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-underwater-scotland":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Planning a November visit to Scotland is dodgy at the best of times, but wouldn't you know it, we managed to hit it during one of the \u003Ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8369752.stm\">wettest weekends in recorded history\u003C/a>. Here's Suzie the border terrier, sneezing on the swollen riverbank of the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladnoch\">Bladnoch\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_1-14eca91f78.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nBefore Angus met us in Dumfries to take us out to his farm, we had a little look at what the River Nith was getting up to. Scottish words such as \u003Ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dreich+%28Old+Scots+origin%29\">\u003Ci>dreich\u003C/i>\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stooryduster.co.uk/Pages/drookit.htm\">\u003Ci>drookit\u003C/i>\u003C/a> spring to mind.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_6-b583f049a0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStuart and I were well impressed by Dumfries' selection of sandbags. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_14-92d41d7633.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more More soggy photos under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_4-f9df9baa2d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThis pub's appropriately named 'The World's End'.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_5-250bf21c04.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_3-6ccfa1f2d8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_11-6a643544e0.jpg\"> \\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_10-de8d4c8610.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMoving on, here's a bleak looking view of the Isle of Whithorn. We mostly stayed in the pub.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_7-d879cfb1dd.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the place in Wigtown where some Covenanters were tied to a stake and left to a watery death.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_8-9917fbbcb8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nMore wetness along the riverbank.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_9-9d2302c7b2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nActually, we had a very good trip, despite all this. But it was great being able to cuddle up by the fire with some warm animals in the evenings (Suzie and Sweep). ...More on Scotland later, when we dry off a bit.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_12-d6c6871ca2.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/scotland09_13-b9d50aba37.jpg\">","2009-11-26T00:17:00.000Z","underwater-scotland",[],"underwater scotland",1776628733592]