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The Dunmore Pineapple House in Airth Scotland.

Dunmore Pineapple, Stirlingshire

Spike Milligan: 'Follies of the Wise'

As the festive season approached in 1970, families would have pored over the special edition of the Radio Times to see what treats the three television channels could offer. If on New Year’s Eve had they walked across the room to warm up the set, and twiddled the knob to find BBC One, they would have seen a programme called Follies of the Wise presented by Spike Milligan. The writer, actor and…

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The Dunmore Park ‘Pineapple’.

The Dunmore Pineapple, Dunmore Park, near Airth in Stirlingshire, Scotland

The Dunmore Pineapple in Dunmore Park

I was tagged by @a-french-guardsman while being cruelly insulted. Relationship Status: Perpetually Single

Favorite color: Orange

Last Song I listened to: Ben Franklin’s Song by the Decemberists

Three favorite foods (meals): Chicken parmesan, cheesesteak, pierogi

Last thing I googled: The Dunmore Pineapple house to show my friend a picture. (Click that link. I promise you will be glad you did.)

Dream trip: Scotland. In Highland attire, of course.

Anything I want now: a sabbatical to recover my health

People I’ll tag with no pressure whatsoever: @kholran because we are now forever entertwined, uhhh and anyone else who wants to do it I hate tagging people.

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the Dunmore Pineapple

Did YOU know pineapples were grown in #Scotland in the 18th century? 🤯🍍 This unique building was built as a summerhouse by the Earl of Dunmore back in 1761 when pineapples were among our most exotic foods! 💛 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Dunmore Pineapple

The Dunmore Pineapple is a folly in Dunmore Park, near Airth in Stirlingshire, Scotland. It was ranked "as the most bizarre building in Scotland".

The intricately carved stone pineapple, which is situated between the two bothies, forms an elaborate cupola atop an octagonal pavilion, with sash windows topped with Gothic ogee arches on seven sides and a door, topped with an ogee transom, on the eighth. The pineapple is around 14 metres (46 ft) high and constitutes a stunning example of the stonemason's craft, being a remarkably accurate depiction of a pineapple. Each of the curving stone leaves is separately drained to prevent frost damage, and the "stiff serrated edges of the lowest and topmost leaves and the plum berry-like fruits are all cunningly graded so that water cannot accumulate anywhere, ensuring that frozen trapped water cannot damage the delicate stonework."

Read more about this curiosity on Wikipedia.

Taken with Pentax MZ‍-‍S film camera and smc Pentax‍-‍FA 50mm F1.4 lens, on Kodak Ektar 100 film. 1/250 exposure, ƒ/5.6, 100ASA. Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100, with VueScan x64 9.5.

Dunmore Pineapple, Stirlingshire

Follies and Pharmaceuticals: a Curious Concoction

Barbara Jones is best known to readers of these pages as the author of Follies & Grottoes (1953, revised 1974), the first book to consider the subject of garden and landscape buildings in any detail. She also wrote books about popular art, erotic postcards and furniture amongst other subjects, and as an illustrator and designer her work appeared in magazines, on calendars, dustjackets, greetings…

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