Parking restrictions for forest event
Visitors to Pitlochry will not be able to park on a number of streets during the Enchanted Forest.
The Enchanted Forest, the epic light and sound show in Faskally Woods, began last night (Thursday, October 3).
Over 80,000 people are expected to visit the event over the next month, with visitors leaving on buses from Pitlochry town centre.
In order to make sure buses taking passengers to and from the forest can get around the town safely, parking has been banned on a number of roads in the town.
This includes Bonnethill Road between Atholl Road to West Moulin Road; East Moulin Road from West Moulin Road to Perth Road; West Moulin Road from East Moulin Road to Atholl Road; Ferry Road and Tummel Crescent; Birnam Place from Atholl Road to Viewbank Gardens; Station Road; Lower Oakfield between East Moulin Road and Toberargan Road; Higher Oakfield between East Moulin Road and Toberargan Road; and Toberargan Road from Higher Oakfield to Bonnethill Road.
The parking ban came into place on Wednesday, October 2 and will be in place for six weeks. It also includes a ban on loading. Pedestrian and emergency access will be maintained throughout. A Perthshire woman could not believe her eyes when her pet sheep had a little lamb - in September.
Susan Duval from Cairnton Farm in Pitcairngreen, was out tending to her sheep early in the morning on Sunday, September 22, and was shocked to find the newborn animal.
This is highly unusual, as lambs are almost always born in the springtime.
Susan said: “I have got a small farm with pet animals, including two pet Shetland ewes.
“I found out the farmer who put the sheep in the big field next to my paddock had a tup with a sore leg, and somehow he managed to get into my ewes and produced a lamb.
“He is a Beltex cross Suffolk and she is a small Shetland pedigree, and she managed to have quite a big lamb all by herself with no help.
“You never get lambs at this time of year, so I was very surprised.
“I have never heard of this happening before, it is most unusual.
“Even though the tup was in the field next to them, the ewes don’t normally go to see them at this time of year, so between the two of them it is a complete fluke.
“If he got into their paddock, he would have had a go at both of them, so it is unusual for her to be in season and then take a tup, never mind produce a lamb in September.”
Susan said she suspected her ewe was pregnant about a month ago because she was starting to get fat and had a swollen udder, however she had no idea when the lamb would arrive.
She has had the two sheep since they were lambs, but said she had never intended on having any lambs from them.
The baby lamb has since been named by a group of local youngsters.
Susan continued: “I do have a name for the lamb now.
“I have a horse on loan to Kinfauns Riding for the Disabled, so we took some photos of the lambs and asked the children to suggest some names for it.
“There were lots of suggestions, but I liked this one - Lontas.
“Lontas is the Gaelic word for ‘surprise’.”