Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland.

This week we are continuing with our Halloween journey.

I am your local crypt-dweiler, Jenny.

And I'm your gravestone enthusiast, Annie And in this episode, we're talking about a place

near and dear to my heart. It's the graveyard next door. Well, not quite next door. The graveyard is

technically over the very busy road from our house. But that doesn't quite have the same ring to it,

does it? No, it certainly doesn't.

But yes, this is one of the three graveyards that remain in the very centre of the city of

Inverness, and it is by far my favourite.

Gold claims.

While the other two graveyards remain connected to churches on one of the main streets.

This graveyard, called Chapel Yard Cemetery, sits alone and untethered from any place of worship,

just on the outskirts of the town centre.

Now, I became absolutely enthralled by this graveyard after learning that it was the burial place of one of

my favourite Gaelic poets, Mary Vore, Great Mary of the Songs. And I often bring her flowers,

well, her grave flowers. Well, that's lovely, Annie. We walk by this graveyard almost every day,

and while you are familiar with it and even have a grave to visit, I have never actually taken my wondering feet in.

Whenever I'm passing by, I feel I never quite have the time to pop in and have a look around.

But why, Jenny? It's a lovely little space of green with lots of trees and berries, things that you really like.

I do like trees and berries, but these ones are all hidden behind walls and hedges.

And it's not just that, Annie. It's also because it's right next to the busiest roundabout in the city.

And I always have to like, that gear myself up mentally before crossing it.

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