{"id":3466,"date":"2016-11-21T18:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2016-11-21T18:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:29:44","slug":"folly-bergere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=3466","title":{"rendered":"Folly berg\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday saw us at a chum’s fundraiser in aid of Dravet’s Syndrome care, and hugely successful it was too.\u00a0 Jill worked wonders in rallying prizes and gifts, sadly my henna tattoo is fading fast.\u00a0 She raised over \u00a31500 and it was well worth a day’s baking.\u00a0 Paul & I were able to skip up the cinema to see Fantastic Beasts, I didn’t have any unrealistic expectations; it was hugely enjoyable and a Bowtruckle is now on my list.<\/p>\n

Sunday dawned with thick patches of cloud all over Fife, very localised and they ended as suddenly as they began.\u00a0 One of them hung over the Cullaloe Hills, but we went for a walk there anyway. \u00a0 There is a fairly new website which is detailing these (Walk Fife – link on the right) and on this particular route there are two follies, all that apparently remains of Cullaloe House.\u00a0 There is also an “alternate” route back to the car park – if by “alternate” you seek to imply that no biped has used this track in ten years.\u00a0 It was hugely treacherous underfoot and I am extremely grateful that Paul was there, as, left alone I would still be there, crying under a tree. \u00a0 I would be doubtful about tackling it again unless I were inside a Sherman tank.\u00a0 So, yes, go along as far as the folly, then turn back, gentle reader, and save your ankles.\u00a0 We also surprised two roe deer and survived being interviewed by a robin.<\/p>\n

Having taken two hours to negotiate the 3.5K track, we hied back to Vane Farm, also under a thick daud of cloud.\u00a0 Rumours of the eagles being on St Serf’s abounded, but could not be proven.\u00a0 There were some tree sparrows at the feeders, which was a bonus.<\/p>\n

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Octagonal folly, Cullaloe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paul walking the loop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The other folly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday saw us at a chum’s fundraiser in aid of Dravet’s Syndrome care, and hugely successful it was too.\u00a0 Jill worked wonders in rallying prizes and gifts, sadly my henna tattoo is fading fast.\u00a0 She raised over \u00a31500 and it was well worth a day’s baking.\u00a0 Paul & I were able to skip up the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fife","category-rspb-loch-leven-at-vane-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}