2013 will be a special year for the Rae family and Torrisdale Estate, this being their 30th year of visiting the estate for their annual three week holiday. Norman and Isabella Rae started coming to Torrisdale back in 1983 and have returned year after year with their two son’s Jamie and Norman. The Rae family …
Blue sky again..
After a month of mist, fog and rain, life in Torrisdale has been very much like living in a cloudforest. The trees and flowers are in full bloom and vegetation is swollen and so green. The thousands of ponticum flowers which gave the landscape a purple tinge have given way to the pink flashes of …
Wedding at Torrisdale
We had our second wedding at Torrisdale on Saturday. David Macmillan and Janice Macintosh tied the knot on Saturday with a small party of ten. They braved the weather and had the civil ceremony outside, umbrellas went up and Janice’s heel was sinking into the soft ground but there were smiles (and tears) all round …
Fungi and Water Pipes
A very wet, muddy morning helping Donald and Tony lay a new water pipe. The water to Torrisdale Square and surrounding properties was starting to look like milky coffee so a new pipe was needed to run under the forest track to access clean water from above the forestry operations. After a lot of dragging, …