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The tower is home to the Russian Orthodox Botel Abbey where two priests undertake regular services according to the ancient Use of Sarum. In September 2019 the abbot Fr James Alexei Cavendish was consecrated Bishop of Whithorn, Dumfries, and the Marches.

I have been re-reading House of Elrig. On page 45 Chapter 3, GM writes,  "something sombre and terrible happened at Tynewood, something that returned to shatter me years later." Tynewood was his Aunt Victoria's house in Northumberland where he stayed occasionally. This incident occurred about 1920. Anyone have any idea what this refers to ? I haven't found any references in Botting's biography or anywhere else.

Keats and Charles Armitage Brown stayed at an inn in the small town of Dalbeattie in Galloway on their walking tour of Scotland in 1818.

A poem for Holy Week

Lenten Flowers by Kathleen Raine Primrose, anemone, bluebell, moss Grow in the Kingdom of the Cross

And the ash-tree’s purple bud Dresses the spear that sheds his blood.

With the thorns that pierce his brow Soft encircling petals grow

For in each flower the secret lies Of the tree that crucifies.

Garden by the water clear All must die who enter here!

© Kathleen Raine

London:Hamish Hamilton 1949 .

GM's grandfather Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Bt, KT, ( 1845 – 1937). Caricature by "Spy", (Leslie Ward 1851-1922), from Vanity Fair, a copy of which hung in the living room at Camusfeàrna and is to be seen in the background in many photographs.

Vanity Fair, 28th September 1893. Image out of copyright and in the Public Domain.

The Unloved by Kathleen Raine

I am the horizon.

I am a wave

That will never reach the shore.

I am an empty shell

Cast up on the sand.

I am the moonlight

On the cottage with no roof.

I am the forgotten dead

In the broken vault on the hill.

I am the horizon.

I am a wave

That will never reach the shore.

I am an empty shell

Cast up on the sand.

I am the moonlight

On the cottage with no roof.

I am the forgotten dead

In the broken vault on the hill.

This was the site of author Gavin Maxwell's retreat which he called Camusfeàrna, "the bay of the alders", in his book "Ring of Bright Water". The house had previously been a smallholding and home for the part-time lighthouse keeper of the Sandaig Lighthouse.

The Sandaig Light formerly on nearby island Little Sandaig was built in 1910 by Charles Alexander Stevenson, (cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson), for the Northern Lighthouse Board. In 2002 the tower was restored and moved to the community-owned Glenelg Ferry Slipway where it is now a feature.



Culgruff House, Crossmichael,presbytery          Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. Baronial style mansion of 1889, has been attributed in 2018 to architectural drawings to architect Charles William Stephens, red sandstone, 2 storeys with attics and tall square tower. Above entrance door the inscription "God's Providence is Mine Inheritance" and date of 1889. Built for Robert Stewart of Southwick who married Georgina Eleanor Maxwell daughter of Sir William Maxwell 3rd baronet of Cardoness. Is listed as Category B.



Öl auf Leinwand 110 x 85 cm

Venus of Kirkcudbright oil in canvas 110 x 85 cm





Death was at hand even in Wigtownshire as Kokoschka’s many drawings of dead game and fish testify to. A memorable work of this period was “The Hunters” a portrait of Douglas Blew-Jones and Pat Campbell, who rented Corsmalzie House, near Port William. Kokoschka described his contact with the hunters thus: “''We knew two eccentric Englishmen, both keen shots, who lived an isolated life with a pack of lazy gundogs, in a once fine house that lay deep in a boggy wood, overgrown with mouldering creepers. There were so many dogs lolling about on the sofas and chairs that one had trouble finding a place to sit down. Pheasant being out of season, rabbits were the only game; what the dogs left over the men ate. Once out of boredom, they began firing at their own reflections in the ceiling high mirrors. We called on them no more after that.''

(My Life, Oskar Kokoschka, London 1974)

What shall I sing to my lord from my window?

What shall I sing, for my lord will not stay?

What shall I sing, for my lord will not listen?

Where shall I go, for my lord is away?

Whom shall I love when the moon is arisen?

Gone is my lord, and the grave is his prison.

What shall I say when my lord comes a-calling?

What shall I say when he knocks on my door?

What shall I say when his feet enter softly,

Leaving the marks of his grave on my floor?

Enter my lord, come from your prison.

Come from your grave, for the moon is arisen

Can this wikidata category be changed please? The Viking Hoard was found in Galloway in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire to be precise and is nowhere near Dumfriesshire. These sort of errors are a great source of irritation to those of us who live in Galloway and shouldn't occur on Wikipedia which plays great emphasis on accuracy and verification. The Galloway Hoard is the accepted name and there are numerous references most notably The National Museum of Scotland (NMS) in Edinburgh where the Hoard now is.