The pencils have been lovingly sharpened, chewed, stuck in places you just don’t want to know about, fired across classrooms, prodded classmates, and now and again, used for their intended purpose. Some pencils may have come from elsewhere, but that would be advertising so we can’t mention any Swedish homeware store. Even the log book bags once held grapes sold in the school tuck shop before they were retrieved from various not so hungry children. The only things that cost money are the swaps, and no. I didn’t shoplift them!!!
Sluice Gates
Three caches along the route of the aqueduct that channelled water from the Monikie Burn into the reservoirs at Monikie Park. Parking is on West Hillhead Road. This is a residential street with an unadopted road/farm track, so please drive carefully and park considerately. The walk is a grassy track along the raised embankment of the aqueduct. Flat terrain but likely to be squelchy underfoot in wet weather. Open views and lots of birds singing.
The Monikie burn appears to originate near Carrot Hill and runs past the top loch at Monikie Park, through the Panmure Estate and the Angus countryside before spilling out to sea between Westhaven and Easthaven.
If anyone has any info on these I’d love to add it to the cache page, as I’m afraid a well-known search engine hasn’t been very helpful this time.