The Pink House

19/08/2024

I’m delighted for Tracy and her wonderful ladies. If I’m ever busy on a Saturday my guests are in prize winning hands.

14/06/2024

27/04/2024

It’s all good this Saturday as the chimney gets a real overall from Up Yer Lum chimney sweep. No mess no fuss and piece of mind alls safe.
Thank you David

17/01/2024

Cold but utterly gorgeous

16/11/2023

I know from the comments book that this reward is very well deserved.

Nice surprise to have also been awarded gold for food and drink at National hotels of the year Scotland

01/10/2023

Our New Winter opening Hours

14/09/2023

Open for breakfast from Monday 25th from 8am until 10.30.
Full Scottish breakfast or filled breakfast rolls to eat in or takeaway.
Do you want black pudding or haggis?
Square or link sausage?
Hash browns or tattie scones?

09/09/2023

02/09/2023

The red hot pokers are enjoying the sunshine

29/08/2023

Anyone who has stayed here in the past two years will have been welcomed by a bunch of flowers from this lovely lady. It’s wonderful to see her achievement in building this wonderful business down here be recognised.

Voting and registration site for UK business awards

31/07/2023

This is the wonderful lady who delivers fresh flowers to the Pink House every week ( well sometimes it’s her equally lovely husband)
I get many compliments in the guest book for the flowers which are just as good at the end of the week as the beginning.
A well deserved award.

13/07/2023

When your out exploring

New menu starting from today x

13/07/2023

Something to look out for on your holiday 😃

25/06/2023

Thank you Lynn Barrett for the other side of the story. This ‘Yukka’ ‘Torbay Palm’ or Cordyline Australis as it should known is actually a New Zealand tree!

“The species Cordyline australis is a tall tree endemic to New Zealand where it grows from the far northerly subtropical areas of the North Island to the chilly southern areas of the South Island. It is typically found in forest margins, river banks and open places, and is also abundant in wet swampy area.”

Bought about 25 years ago from Jack Oliver at Bladnoch as a couple of feet high youngster, often used as the centre piece in a pot. It was bronze.
In the middle now it has a healthy population of turtle doves whom have the perfect nest. The flowers are a bee magnet and it has survived several floods. A wonderful tree.

19/03/2023

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10/02/2023

The oldest privately owned Whisky Distillery in the world, making delicious single malt since 1817. 🥃

22/01/2023

It’s serious spring clean week here in the Pink House and I can tell you now I won’t be putting on TikTok how organised I am.

04/12/2022

27/11/2022

27/11/2022

And look at this for yummy,

27/11/2022

Collected fresh from the Steam Packet this morning. Ordered on Facebook last night. It tastes wonderful. This will be be my new Sunday treat.

11/02/2022

Sunrise on Waitangi Day, (NZ's national holiday) 6th February with a NZ cabbage tree
Taken my a guest this week from New Zealand originally. Happy to have a wee bit of home.

01/01/2022

A Happy New Year to everyone.

18/12/2021

December

20/11/2021

Our guests this week included Denny a puppy guide dog. He’s had a lovely holiday and even got to meet his sister.

18/11/2021

Still looking at ship building the first ship to be built at the Isle of Whithorn that is mentioned was built b y a young man named George Broadfoot, in the years 1789 -99. Broadfoot was the son of the farmer, who farmed Cutcloy. He built the ship at the end of the Bay, now known as the Joiner’s Rocks, fitted her out, and then sailed her to Boston, America. The name of the ship was ‘Cutcloy.’
No doubt many ships were built after that at the Joiner’s Rocks, but there is no record although some of those mentioned in the previous post may have been built there.
The McMeeken family set u the boatyard between the church and the Steam Packet and some of the previous list were probably built there. Peter McMeeken's son was keener on sailing ships than building them (he actually sailed the Atlantic 300 times and never lost a man) and so the shipyard was sold to the McWilliam family who had come to the Isle from Kirkcowan. The McWilliams built mainly larger vessels. It has prove difficult to trace them all but those I have found are:
COMET (schooner)
JANET MCWILLIAM (brig)
WIGTOWNSHIRE (barque)
CAPTAIN HAWTHORN (brig)
GEM (smack)
ISLE OF WHITHORN (barque)
AID (barque) (Board's minutes dated 08 Nov. 1869, the vessel having been arrested, condemned and sold to foreigners for alleged damage to cargo at Ilpslada, U.S.A. and Cert of Registry left there for daclamation of late registered owner. William McWilliam the late owner has been called upon to obtain and deliver up the Cert. of Registry if it be in existence.)
LOCHNAW (barque)
PATRIOT ( barque) launched 1872
As noted there was problems with the AID due to the build causing damage to the cargo. There were many claims against the McWilliams causing them to have to end the boatyard and sell the patented slipway to Carrickfergus. There was enough good ship timbers left to build a shop on the site of the boatyard, a shop which served the community for well over a hundred years.

18/11/2021

Our brilliant local history groups on Facebook local history groups have provided these fascinating images for which I’m delighted and very thankful.
Most of the locations are still easily recognised.
Sadly the shop has gone which stood opposite the Pink House.

13/11/2021

The low light creates beautiful contrast

31/10/2021

After a very wet stormy night the guests this week in the Pink House woke to this. Thank you for sharing

01/07/2021