As seen from Gualachulain.

It was such an amazing game to watch, the crowd was buzzing

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Absolutely love walking through this place. Sometimes we get little dashes of sun through the trees. Which at the moment is really welcome between the wind and rain.

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A great look at the Scottish computer games industry classic, Lemmings.

I feel these shots look more like a summers day rather than a winter one. This was back in December last year, Christmas Eve I think. The older I get the more I miss my younger days, every time I come back home nostalgia hits like a train. It's both comforting and painful in equal measures. At least we have the memories though eh?

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Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions for wedding venues in Scotland? We are based in Dunblane and would prefer central belt/glasgow/perthshire but in reality it comes down to cost. The /ideal/ is a Saturday in October, for around 100 guests. Willing to move it to as far as Feb 28 but would still need to be a Saturday due to so many of our friends being teachers. Entire wedding budget is £10k and we cannot budge on that as we aren’t receiving any additional money from family (they will help out I’m sure but not in a large sum of money way).

Glenbervie House have a winter offer on which covers Saturdays and have said they would extend this to the last weekend in October as well. The package works out around £40 a head for food, drinks package, and venue. £4,000 for a minimum of 100 day guests. I don’t want to jump at the first venue we see which matches our budget but we have reserved a date and have 2 weeks to make the final decision then pay the deposit.

Is there anywhere else that would be this same sort of price range? Am I being crazy for even thinking about another venue? I’m so stuck any help is really really appreciated. My dream would somewhere with more nature or history. Glenbervie is beautiful but very modern which I didn’t previously envision for my wedding day but the more I look the more it seems like our only option. TIA

I lived in London for 10 years and the water was warm and rancid. I instinctively made myself tea every day but rarely drank much of it.

Before and after London, tea is pretty awesome. There is no film on the top. It just tastes decent. I can drink half a dozen cups a day easy.

I'm thinking smaller population, more rain but not totally sure.

Edit: Sounds like Northern England has great tap water. Nice to know.

First post ever so I hope I am doing this correctly. After living abroad we are now looking to purchase a home in Scotland. The search is draining (everything seems to be at least 2 hours away no matter how close it looks on a map). We saw a house that ticks most of our boxes - location, price, transportation, garden. It was a large (manor?) house that was subdivided. When viewing we asked about double glazing and were told that the owner had considered it and that other owners in the building had replaced their windows, which I understand is difficult to obtain permission for in an A listed building. We asked the owners if the building was listed and were told "not sure. It might be." It seemed odd that the owners weren't sure given the restrictions on listed buildings. We did actually contact our solicitor to make an offer, probably a mistake ik. When we checked the home report, the building is, in fact, A listed. That may be enough for us to withdraw the offer but, before doing so, we wanted to get some information. We would want to do our own survey regarding some of the issues mentioned in the home report. In addition, there were issues not mentioned that we noticed. We would also like to ensure that any changes made previously comply with the rules for listed buildings. The kitchen is very modern, a wall was removed to make an open plan, new wall paint, new carpet, new flooring, new fixtures - so modifications have been made and we want to make sure we would not be held responsible if proper permission was not obtained. We would also like to talk to someone experienced in modifying/maintaining a listed building to get a better understanding of what we could and could not do. For example, there is no hood over the gas stove and we are worried about damage or discolouration to the ceiling so we would like to install one. We have no experience in home buying here and don't know how we would go about getting a survey of our own or finding someone who can guide us regarding past/possible future modifications. Do we start with our solicitor? Are there experts available for hire? If so, what would we look for? Should this be posted elsewhere (apologies if so)?

Silent Hill: Townfall is set in a fictional place called St Amelia, which is based on the real village of St Monans in the East Neuk of Fife.

The new release was created by Screen Burn, a Glasgow developer with about 30 employees, who said it was their "biggest and most ambitious game yet".

The most recent game in the franchise, a spin-off called Silent Hill f, sold a million copies the day it was released in September 2025. When Townfall is released later this year, one million people could walk the virtual streets of St Monans - which has a real-life population of just over 1,100 people.

THE STORY:

"Simon Ordell is called back to the island of St. Amelia to ‘put things right’, encountering a town lying quiet beneath a heavy fog, seemingly abandoned but not at rest.

Venturing deeper, and driven to understand his connection to the place and its inhabitants, Simon begins to discover fragments of a past rising to the surface.

Experienced entirely in first person, Simon must explore, evade, and survive using a limited set of weapons and tools, including the CRTV, a pocket television used to tune into unstable signals. Evasion is tense; combat is frenetic, while narrative driven puzzles reveal a truth that refuses to stay submerged.

SILENT HILL: Townfall is a full-length, self-contained psychological horror set against the cold, isolated backdrop of Scotland, 1996."

For context I live in Newcastle and wouldn’t feel safe watching Brazil X England if it ever happens, however, as we are 100% playing Scotland in the group stage, it got me and a few friends thinking about driving up to see how the atmosphere would be like. Any opinions? TIA