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Category: Wildlife

  • Suite sweet

    Oops, not been here for a whiley, well, I had my appraisal to write up which consumed a lot of evening and weekend time. After 8 Mince had a very good gig at St Peter in Chains church in Inverkeithing; the audience was tremendously supportive  from the beginning,  and it was just one of those…

  • Weather vane

    Sunday was a special day so we went to a special place, no prizes for guessing this was Vane Farm.  We climbed Vane Hill as the day was clear and the views are quite spectacular for relatively little effort.  (hahaHaHaHAHA that’s a joke, you should have seen me halfway up). Although I do find it…

  • Misty and mellow

    It’s frankly sad that a well-loved poem becomes a cliche, I was walking to the train station yesterday and the view from our hill was beautiful, leaves changing colour, low morning sun, wraiths of mist slowly melting and I remembered that Keats probably has never been bettered.  But because so many people know the poem, …

  • Puffin O’Clock

    Here is the new clock which my husband bought for me during the Edinburgh Fringe.  It’s birdy. www.stuartceramics.com

  • Merry Melodies

    Today we went up to Vane Farm in the atrocious pouring rain, and after a walk out to the one operational hide (they’re having work done) we schlepped back into the cafe for a cup of tea, then hied down to the shop on the ground floor. Standing by the optics stand, Paul heard a…

  • Chicken Tonight

    So, for the first time in four years I decided to overcome my natural antipathy to cooking birds. Set chicken to cook in the fan oven at 230 degrees, as recommended by Saint Delia of the Scones. Let me tell you folks, this is a bad move. It is now an hour later and the…

  • Oh for goodness’ sake

    I have occasionally had some moments in my life to look back upon the good stuff.   Tonight the train home to Fife was delayed for ages (ooh, at least 30 minutes) by a points failure at Dalmeny.  So, I was forced to sit in a comfy double seat by myself,  reading a very good book…

  • Losing it

    It’s been a while.  Feels as if the world, or at least my version of it, has tilted on its axis somewhat, I’m finding areas of it to be, well, interesting, shall we say.  Less anon. But I have failed to comment on so much, especially the Christening and family party for young Callum Cook. …

  • Words have not got I

    My head is super entangled right now, work, family concerns, big band gig, weather preventing me from getting home last night, came home tonight to at least five phone calls one after the other, all from people to whom I wanted to speak, so there was a lot of stuff to record. Birds.  The magpies…

  • and so it goes*

    02.05.11 My blog is not a place for political comment, chiefly because I’m painfully aware of my lack of knowledge on the subject.   I will only say therefore that for the first time in yonks I did not switch on the news, tv or radio, first thing this morning, therefore it was perhaps ironic that…