INTERESTING FACT ABOUT EDINBURG!
Greyfriars Bobby
William Brodie, RSA (1815-1881)
1871, unveiled 1873
Bronze on a fine red granite plinth with basin
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
This memorial drinking fountain commemorates Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye terrier who reputedly watched over his master's grave in nearby Greyfriars kirkyard for fourteen years. Touched by Bobby's devotion, the kirk gardener erected a shelter over the grave for him, and Edinburgh's Lord Provost paid his licence fee to save him from being impounded and destroyed: "effectively, Bobby was now owned by the city" (McNab 307). The dog became so famous that shortly before he died William Brodie was commissioned to model this likeness of him.
Photograph, caption and commentary by Jacqueline Banerjee, 2009.
http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/brodie/2.html
Yeah, the tickets have been purchased! Bobby & Maridith purchased theirs first, then just today I purchased mine and Bob's tickets. I suppose this makes it official! We also have booked a place to stay in Edinburg and have reserved a place on the Isle of Arran (mentioned in last post).
And, probably the most exciting of all is that we will be visiting a family in Scotland that I have a personal connection with. For several years I had the blessed privilege to be e-pals with a Baptist pastor's wife from Scotland who had 4 children–just like me! I dreamed of one day getting to go to Scotland and seeing her and her family that I had become so connected to through her emails, face to face! This was not to be, however, for cancer claimed her life before any of that could happen.
Yet, her precious daughter, Sarah, has continued corresponding with me and has invited me and my family for a visit. I look forward to seeing them face to face and getting to know my friend in a deeper way, as her family describes her to me.
