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Monday, September 17, 2018

Dilapidated beauty

We have been in the Scottish cottage for a week or so now; re-acquainting ourselves with the place (Armadale, Highlands) and renewing our spirits and souls.

We have hassled with technology for a bit, but think we might have won that episode for now.  Hence blogging again!

Across the bay from our cottage is another locality called Ladnegulin; and we visited to have look at a croft house for sale.  Just because...

It was described as derelict in the sales blurb, and that it was, but it was beautiful in its dilapidation.  Certainly I don't want to live there, or attempt to renovate it, but I just ached with the beauty of its windows and their stories.

So many stories told and untold from this place I am sure.

Our cottage is across the other side of Armadale Bay (but not in this photo, it is more to the left).



The curtains...




Attempts to protect...


And a door...


It was interesting how my interest in it as a dwelling dissipated as we spent time there; I was instead caught by the ageing of it, the loss of things, the loss of the people who had lived their lives there; a multiplicity of losses, and yet its dignity was steadfast.

So much beauty in this place; always found in the unexpected corners and hollows, and coves...




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    1. Such a lovely way to put it Mo - melancholy was all about...

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  2. the curtains seem like prayer flags ... perhaps because they are much on my mind

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    1. They really do don't they Liz? Again, steadfast and long-lasting, weathering...

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  3. Beautifully melancholic. Can hear the whispers from the families from before but they seem lost in translation.
    I am always pulled by these old abandoned crofts and almost feel a pain when near them.

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    1. The whispers were quiet, but profoundly heard...I didn't show any inside photos, but that is where my heart was aching most - the stories inside of the lives that had been led, and that had left...I understand your sense of pain.

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  4. lovely pictures of a (once) lovely house.

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    1. Thanks Annick - it must have been a lovely home I am sure, much loved.

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  5. Where is the "I adore this place" button!

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