Auchtertool wanderer and goodbye Robbie

Started month alone in Pitlochry Hydro, was nice, walked a loop from there and back along the rivers from Killiekrankie, so a first day of about 28k meant 200k target was eventually reached a week early due to reasonable weather and several walks to Auchtertool and back, each is 20k, though one which I extended to see Auchtertool Kirk was 25k or so. 

Auchtertool was a place that, though not too far away, was never on my list of places to visit, there are now no pubs nor restaurants for a start, the main road through has speed bumps every 30 metres or so, not a place that I would feel at home in. Though my dad Ron has been in a care home there these last weeks. He is not doing well, it's actually very bad that both my parents have suffered before the end, not that my dad is gone yet, though quality of life is very bad. A caring, loving, close family is not really our way of doing things, I will not go into detail.

RIP Robbie, my budgie was not doing well, he missed his partner Stasi, who died last month, even the introduction of the youngsters Scampi and Kenny couldn't cheer him up. After almost 10 years with his late partner he decided he would go too. He is buried near Stasi outside. 

Scampi and Kenny are lively and hyper in the mornings, they love watching budgie Youtube videos, and will cause a scene until they get their fix. 

Had a nice visit to the Royal Yacht Britannia in the last few days, have been twice, but not since 2009, a visit it is certainly worth. 

A booze-free month lies ahead...one of the last photos of Robbie I post here, along with BP on Britannia and me on a mega walk up Pitlochry way.