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Category: Wildlife

  • Brrr

    Actually, not brrr so much, although I have not set foot over the door yet this morning – I have been wrapping gifts since 05:30, lest ye suspect any yuletide slacking off.  Chum in Cowdenbeath reports that there was a thunderstorm last night but we slept right through it.   There is a little snow on…

  • Statuesque

    Back to Northumberland we tootled, this time to Slaley Hall, to swoon once more at the autumn colours, and spend a lot of time talking.  Noted redwing and song thrush feeding voraciously in the rowan tree outside our bedroom window. On the Wednesday we went our separate ways, Paul to a star camp in Galloway…

  • On the Road

    Just a brief update, back from our weekend in Beadnell with Team Discovery and although none of us have our woes to seek, it was a very pleasant time spent together.  Due to a fractional split in the space time continuum coinciding with a wormhole, the men won the quiz.  But the women were runners…

  • Frittered away**

    Every day, gentle readers*, I empty this site of spam.  There has been a particularly concerted effort lately on the part of someone who seems to believe, and believe strongly, that my life is incomplete because I do not possess an Hermès handbag, specifically a Birkin.  I know what that is, heck, I even know…

  • Post, equinoxial

    As sweet and musical As bright Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love’s Labour’s Lost (4.3.289-292) Shakespeare   Thanks to Poppy Lee for that quote and please have a look at her website, she’s a genius.   The trouble with being…

  • Murmur

    If you have never followed this link before, why not do it now?    

  • Ars longa, vita brevis

    Had one of Kirsty’s famous wee hiatuses there, back now and wouldn’t you know it, it’s festival time, both here in Fife, and to a lesser extent in Edinburgh.  We bought a picture at the Aberdour Festival whilst catching up with chums.   We plunged into the fringe last weekend and then had to commune with…

  • Gullible

    So, last night, as the heatwave shows no sign of abating, it was back to Aberdour beach to watch the birds clean up the day’s food litter.

  • Bauxite no more

      Roasty toasty Fife still and ever on – went to Burntisland yesterday, and the scene was just lovely – every café was full to bursting, there were queues outside the chippies for cones of chips and cones of ice cream, screams from the shows*, and once I made it to the pool, delight as…

  • Bucket List

    Hear yourself singing on the radio.  Check. Thanks Mincers and Pedro. More to follow, been a bit out of it yet again, but coming through on the coat tails of the usual suspects.