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Dunfermline War Memorials for Remembrance Day
The World War 1 Memorial is situated just to the south of Dunfermline Abbey. The Second World War Memorial is set into the south wall of Dunfermline Abbey grounds. Smaller and more secluded than the...
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Sunset at Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy, Fife
When Jack got home from work last Tuesday night he said: there’s a fantastic sky out there – so we shot out with the camera to see what we could capture. For some reason the sky looked even redder...
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Cramond village, near Edinburgh
Last Saturday we stopped off at Cramond after spending the afternoon at Ingliston Antiques Fair, near Edinburgh. Cramond is a wee coastal village near Edinburgh and we pass it on the way home to Fife....
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Wooler, Northumberland
When we travelled down to England during the October holidays we passed a sign which pointed to the town of Wooler, it was described as a medieval market town. I thought it sounded lovely so we decided...
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Dunfermline Christmas Lights
It’s all more than a wee bit fuzzy, obviously I’ll have to take a look at the instructions on how to take night time photographs of lights. These ones are in Dunfermline town centre, a town in Fife...
View ArticleEvee’s Peebles, Scottish Borders
If you want to see Peebles in snow do yourself a favour and have a look at Evee’s recent Winter post. Peebles is the small Scottish Border town which was home to the John Buchan/O.Douglas family, they...
View ArticleRichard III
I’ve been waiting for the DNA results on the skeleton which was found in a car park in Leicester last year and they’ve just come through on BBC News 24 – sure enough, it is Richard III, the last...
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Dalmeny Village and Kirk
Well, what can I say? There’s not a lot in Dalmeny really, so I hope it isn’t a disappointment to you. I must admit that it appealled to me though. We passed this field on the road up to the village...
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The Harbourmaster’s House, Dysart, Fife, Scotland
I’ve posted quite a few photos of Dysart before, but never one of the front of the harbourmaster’s house. I’ve been meaning to get along the coast to Dysart since I read Anna Buchan’s (O.Douglas)...
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Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
When I woke up on Sunday morning and realised that it was a dead dreich day (in other words – miserably grey, damp day) – I was really glad that we had grabbed a hold of the sunshine of the previous...
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Allan Bank, Grasmere, English Lake District
We didn’t visit Dove Cottage at Grasmere because we were pushed for time and it isn’t National Trust. Allan Bank was our destination, unfortunately we thought it was actually in the village and it...
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Moffat and no books
We stopped off at Moffat on our way down to the Lake District, it’s a pretty area and it has a second-hand bookshop. The author D.E. Stevenson lived there and is buried in the town. We parked the car...
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Wordsworth House, Cockermouth
We actually stayed at Cockermouth when we were in the Lake District, mainly because that is where William Wordsworth was born and grew up, and in the hope that it wouldn’t be as busy and touristy there...
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Ta-Dah! A new old gatepost.
Don’t let anyone tell you that there’s nobody around today who can do what the Victorians did, because they can, as you can see from the new red sandstone gatepost which has appeared at Beveridge Park...
View ArticleSt Andrews Botanic Garden (Help save it)
We were in St Andrews on Saturday, and as it’s one of my favourite places I was having a good time until someone asked me if I would sign a petition to try to save the botanic garden. Of course I did,...
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Looking Around Stirling/Clackmannanshire
You might know that we’ve been planning on moving house for quite a while now, it’s time we downsized now that we have an empty nest, our house is actually up for sale at last. As neither of us come...
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Burntisland, Fife and Tyninghame in East Lothian
Well that’s the school holidays over with in the east of Scotland anyway. We didn’t go away this summer, our lives are sort of on hold at the moment as our house is up for sale now and we can’t really...
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River Esk, Musselburgh, East Lothian
Last week, on our way back from Tyninghame, we stopped off in Musselburgh. I had never been there before, apart from just driving through it. As towns go it does have a plus as far as I’m concerned, in...
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Kelso, Scottish Borders
Last week we took a trip down south again, but just going a wee bit over the border this time, intending to visit Flodden battle field. But we stopped off in the small border town of Kelso to stretch...
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The Grey Mare’s Tail near Moffat, Scotland
We did take a day trip to Moffat a couple of weeks ago, amd the bookshop was open. I only bought one book though, a history one: Mary Queen of Scots The Fair Devil of Scotland by Jean Plaidy. Until...
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