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Category: Birds

  • Hogmanay

    Well, it will be no surprise to those who know us to learn that we have been up to Vane Farm again today.   It was dreich, wet, foggy, misty, dour, and held out no hope for any sightings at all, but we went in anyway. Having secured the prime table in the cafe – the…

  • Snow way

    Yes, the white stuff is back, but only about two inches, and if this blog had audio you would hear Ross next door clearing the footpath with his brand new snow shovel. The adverse weather this week catapulted Scotland to the forefront of the news – fortunately this was not because of any fatalities incurred…

  • 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. …