We had some interesting visitors pop by this week. I love that about this place, you never know who is going to turn up next. We’d received an email from Jenny Schiffner from Ontario, who was in the process of researching her ancestry on her mother’s side. She discovered a Scottish connection which no one …
The mercury is rising at last and we are enjoying a fabulous spell of sunshine at the moment. The views are even more spectacular and the estate is bursting into bloom. The daffodils have been wonderful this year and, despite being a disease-carrying, non-native invasive species, there is no denying that the rhododendrons also play …
Three significant arrivals have occurred this week at Torrisdale, heralding the official start of the season and a slightly new direction for our Servants’ Quarters apartment. The wooden hot tub and sauna arrived in all their glory at the weekend, having been constructed off-site by our fabulous builder friend, Illy. The next task is to …
We are emerging slowly after a long and very wet winter. It has really been very mild but we have still been VERY grateful for the addition of central heating in the castle for the first time in it’s 200 year history. Niall’s new baby bio-mass boiler is doing a sterling job of heating not …