Many times have we passed near Greywalls Hotel so we were delighted to be given a voucher for afternoon tea.  We celebrated our wedding anniversary sitting in the beautiful peaceful garden while enjoying the first time that we have ever had an afternoon tea. The cloud and slight wind kept the temperature very pleasant and unlike the unbearable heat further south.  Greywalls was built as a holiday home in 1901 for the keen golfer, Alfred Lyttleton “within a mashie niblick shot of the eighteenth green at Muirfield’ which is the golf course that hosted the Lady’s Open Championship last week.  The house was designed by the renowned Edwin Lutyens and extended in 1908 and again in 1911 by Sir Robert Lorimer, one of Scotland’s leading architects, to accommodate King Edward VII when parties were given during his visit. Lutyens was very friendly with the famous garden designer, Gertrude Jekyll, and the garden shows her influence.  There are several parts of the garden including “quiet areas” with the main section shown in the photo. The walls are not grey but a sort of honey colour and the stone came from the nearby Rattlebags Quarry which supplied much of the local building stone.

I had to google the expression but have no idea how far it is
"Mashie Niblick – this fun moniker was used for a club which was equivalent in use to the modern 7-iron. 16. Pitching Niblick – this is the old way to refer to a golf club which achieved the same function as the modern 8-iron, or short iron."