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Category: Fife

  • You can’t hurry, love.*

    Listening to the Murray v Djokovic Australian Open final,  cannot bear to watch it. Somethings are changing, others are stubbornly stuck fast.  Yesterday we went to Silver Sands beach at Aberdour, inspired to move around by beautiful beach pictures from chums in Oz for ‘Straila Day, on what turned out to be a rather beautiful…

  • Abu Dhabi

    Here are some pictures from yesterday in Aberdour, on the Silver Sands beach.  Winter just about upon us.  

  • (Im)précis

    Triple busy of late, it’s always like that in the run up to a holiday, or maybe it isn’t, we just perceive the contrast more keenly. Yesterday we went to Callum’s second birthday party, and such was the excitement that I didn’t manage to catch any really good pictures of him.   There was lots of…

  • the ravel’d sleeve of care

    Is anyone else finding it really difficult to sleep just now?  And when I do, I have lollapalooza dreams.   But how lovely to wake to a sunny day for once, with a gentle breeze.  Admittedly this was at 04:18 but it is still fine now at 10:00 exactly. A moment’s silence for the dead blue…

  • The b(e)at goes on

    As indeed does the rain.   Luckily it held off last weekend when we attended Ciara’s first communion and confirmation, and allowed us a very brief but interesting picnic in the Kirkgate park, Kinross.   There was an exhibition there hosted by various local wildlife and history interst groups and if we’d known there  was going…

  • Shaken not shtirred*

    FINALLY,  around six months after I hung up a Nyger seed feeder, we saw goldfinches in the front garden today.   These jaunty wee chaps are a joy to look at; their collective noun, as you will know, is a charm of goldfinches, and once or twice I have been privileged enough to see such a…

  • Per ardua ad astra…

    …or at least via the A917. Yesterday the DB Astronomy Club was asked to host a star party in the grounds of the rather posh Fairmont Hotel near St Andrews.  It was rumoured that a local business man was flying in his dinner guests by helicopter from his private lighthouse (where do you land a…

  • Gang Forth

    Lovely lunch at the Wee Restaurant in North Queensferry today, with Rosemary. Having lived here for over thirteen years, and shared our lives with chums, we have many reasons for feeling ambivalent about the Forth Bridges, which I will not go into here.  But I took some pictures of the FB, resplendent in her fresh…

  • Normal service…

    ..is being resumed as soon as possible, if you do not know then let me advise that this site was hacked, massive thanks to Alison for alerting us.  Paul has been very busy working on it since then and the message as always people is back up, back up, back up. In other news, we’ve…

  • Vanitas, vanitas, omnia vanitas

    Right.  It’s been a while.*  Need to add the password for this blog to my iPad so that I can post from wherever. Gorgeous day yesterday, we went to Vane Farm, looked around the refurbished cafe, not finished yet but we enjoyed a tasty lunch.  Then we climbed Vane Hill.  Once at the summit, and…