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On Saturday we continued on our mini project of walking the Loch Leven Heritage trail one metre at a time, this hejira was from Vane Farm to East Brackley viewpoint and pavilion.\u00a0 Along this whole route there are many benches, most carved with local lore set in rhyme.\u00a0 One of my favourites, which I am sure I have put here before is “Droning hum, orange bum, blaeberry bumblebees buzz busily to meadow flowers with pollen-laden knees<\/em>“.\u00a0 It sits above the wild flower meadow which itself is adjacent to the Carden hide on the reserve.\u00a0 The pavilion (we’ve discussed all weekend what to call it, that’s the official title) has sculptures by David F. Wilson<\/a>.\u00a0 I had to Google them to find that out, we could not see any accreditation at the site, which is rather naughty and I know one Fife champion of the arts, and artists, who would be spitting feathers if I told her<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0 Anyway,\u00a0 I liked the works very much.\u00a0 It was a crystal clear day so the views were forever, and the gliders at Scotlandwell were taking full advantage of their opportunities.\u00a0 Very few birds were in evidence and those which were, were too far away to identify but at least included the first Whooper and scaup of 2017.\u00a0 Widdershins – our out bound route was anti-clockwise.<\/p>\n

Afterwards we went up to Tormaukin <\/a>for the Mincers’ annual nicht oot.\u00a0 Unfortunately we couldn’t all be there for the meal, thoughts are with those concerned.\u00a0 There has been some negative input on TripAdvisor lately, have to say we found the place to be fine, staff were cheerful and helpful, food was lovely and the drinks interpretive.\u00a0\u00a0 I have never minded waiting to be attended to when the staff acknowledge that there is a delay, and deal with it – it’s being ignored that really riles me. \u00a0 Suffice to say we plan to return and have pre-booked the accommodation above the dining room so that we can play without bothering anyone.<\/p>\n

\"Bumblebee<\/a>
Bumblebee bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"East<\/a>
East Brackley pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"East<\/a>
East Brackley pavilion goose sphere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stone<\/a>
Stone benches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Roof\"<\/a>
Roof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Carved<\/a>
Carved silhouettes by Carden flood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Frozen<\/a>
Frozen patterns on the flood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Skein<\/a>
Skein of geese descending over Loch Leven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday we continued on our mini project of walking the Loch Leven Heritage trail one metre at a time, this hejira was from Vane Farm to East Brackley viewpoint and pavilion.\u00a0 Along this whole route there are many benches, most carved with local lore set in rhyme.\u00a0 One of my favourites, which I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28,11,30,13,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-8-mince","category-birds-wildlife","category-food","category-friends","category-kirsty","category-rspb-loch-leven-at-vane-farm","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}