Chapter 2I’ve lived in Balloch for just over five years and in that time I have come to know the place intimately, the people, the town, the history but because of the nature of my work the landscape has had an abiding influence on me. I supervise trail rides along the side of Loch Lomond and into the hills, I can read the weather like a book and know when to push on and when to turn back. I’m familiar with the country homes dotted throughout the region, thanks to the Rambling law that permits us to go almost anywhere. But one house was still out of bounds. The McLeod house, owned by a wealthy American businessman who visits his Scottish estate once a year.
To call it an estate is laughable, we call it the big hoose, because it truly is just a big house with a large garden. Perhaps John M
