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Andrew & Susan Jones
Scottish Page ~ we love living here and you are very welcome to share it with us!
By the way - this is not a haggis!  It is a Scottish "Cloutie Dumpling", made to Maggie's (Andy's mother) family recipe, handed on in the best family tradition.  You would have to taste it to believe it!

Contents

About Sue ~ Culzean and local interests, tourism and business

About Andy ~ genealogy, Scottish music

Culzean Castle ~ Robert Adam's fantastic, cliff-top, 18th century Castle

• Robert Adam ~ one of Scotland's most well-known architects

• Adam's Culzean ~ his inimitable style, neo-classicism and romance

• Kennedy ~ the family who gifted Culzean to the National Trust for Scotland

• Ailsa Craig ~ the intriguing rock and it's connection with Culzean

• Bibliography ~ references to just some of the books and articles used in this research

Sue's links ~ web sites that I like and that you may find interesting

 I also run a business -      sujocom       - for pleasure and profit!

Have a look at  my commercial site, offering just about anything that I can do (legally and morally) for profit, based around my administrative and computer skills:

• Web-hosting, design & maintenance; Office Services; personalised business and social items (stationery, wedding invitations/menus etc; Gift items (calendars, laminated bookmarks

• Our speciality: Personalised CDROM Presentations, for marketing your business (ideal for dress designers, floral art, jewellers) or for commemorating a special occasion (wedding, graduation, family history) - 
  

the potential applications are endless, just tell us your story and we'll bring it to life with graphics, text and animation, for clients or family and friends to share

• and lots, lots more - check us out!

at:

www.sujo.com

Sue 

In addition to all sorts of everything with sujo.com, my latest career challenge is as Sales & Marketing Assistant with BDF Ltd, Girvan (manufacturers of medical textiles).  Based in the busy Sales Office, my work includes creating new sales literature and working with the database systems. When I'm needed, I also teach some evening classes for Ayr College at their Girvan base - the Carrick Buildings.  Making use of some of the knowledge I've gathered during the last few years, I find that teaching (especially with newcomers to IT) is tremendously rewarding and a whole load of fun!  I'd like to do a lot more, so if you live locally, and are looking to acquire some new skills or extend your present abilities, get in touch with them and maybe I'll meet you there! www.ayrcoll.ac.uk  or e/mail webmaster@ayrcoll.ac.uk

My last Job was as a Secretary/Tour Guide at Culzean Castle, Maybole Ayrshire, Scotland Secretarial support in a busy general office with special responsibility for administration connected to weddings and functions Educational tours when required General dogsbody and computer whiz kid! I started working seasonally at Culzean as a student and enjoyed every minute.  But the time came to move on to a "real" job, a more challenging career.

Personal background

• Susan Jones of Girvan, Ayrshire.

• My interest in the topics covered in this web site was instigated through my employment with the NTS at Culzean on a seasonal basis since 1995. 

• Personal Interests

  Learning and sharing computer skills

  Local history

  Swimming

  Home and garden

• If you have any comments to make or require any further information about anything I've mentioned, please feel free to e-mail me at:

  susan@sujo.com

I would love to hear from you!

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Links to other relevant sites:

Hosted pages for local tourism related enterprises - Accommodation, local businesses, crafts and unusual gifts Carrick Tourism Group

If you want to know more about Girvan, there are pages in progress at  www.girvan-online.net - local site that is growing fast.  

http://www.maybole.org/  Maybole is the "Ancient capital of Carrick" and this site is seeking to that justice!

http://www.open.gov.uk/gros/groshome.htm  Genealogy - Scots Origins, General Register Office for Scotland 

http://home.clara.net/iainkerr/tanddfhs/tanddfhs.htm  Local and Family History Societies - Troon & District 

http://www.ayrshire-arran.com/  Ayrshire & Arran Tourist Board 

 http://www.ent-ayrshire.com/  Enterprise Ayrshire

http://home.clara.net/stuartg/index.html The most exciting website that I found during my searches was this one which goes into great detail about Dalquharran - another Adam house close by, also built for a Kennedy. Now, sadly it's a ruin - its restoration is the stuff that lottery-winning dreams are made of!

 http://www.castles.org/Chatelaine/ayr.htm Castles of Ayr, Scotland.  This site offers other onward links of interest

http://www.gcbooks.demon.co.uk/wbtother.htm  Wigtown has been made a "Book Town" and my favourite bookshop in Scotland is there GC Books - a warm welcome, coffee, comfy chairs and thousands of books! If you're keen on second hand books, you'll love it. 

http://www.nts.org.uk (The National Trust for Scotland)

http://www.aboutscotland.com/culzean/index.html  The Eisenhower Apartment, Culzean Castle.  

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Baltersan/  Find out about the history and the plans for the future of this tower house near to Crossraguel Abbey.

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Last updated - 10/07/06