Friday already!
Jun. 23rd, 2023 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustHow did that happen? Well, by the evidence of my camera, we've been busy. We leave Pittenweem tomorrow morning, but I've made a start on the packing, so perhaps there's time for a quick summary, with a threat /
promise of more to come, as I sort through the photographs.
We spent a wet Tuesday in Crail, dodging showers and buying things (pottery ifrom the pottery, soaps for immediate use and to be enjoyed later from the pharmacy, peaches for dinner...).
On Wednesday we visited the Folk Museum in Ceres: because we had never been there before and because we were curious to see a place called Ceres (Wikipedia says the name means "place to the west" from the Gaelic Siar meaning "west", probably in relation to St Andrews). A fun museum, followed by a brief walk around the village, before we decided it was Just Too Hot, and came home to recover. Recovery aided by the arrival ofhelenraven, kindly conveyed by fjm, and we all decamped to eat fish at the Dory, Pittenweem's fanciest bistro.
Thursday was the day we had booked a boat trip to the Isle of May. The weather was kind to us, and the puffins were numerous, though not close. I took pictures, of course, but mostly by pushing my camera to and beyond the limits of its zoom.
Or you could just relax, and sit in the sunshine, and admire the birds at a distance as they sat on their rocky outcrop (yes, those tiny specks are puffins) or flew back and forth above us. "The place is infested with puffins!" saidhelenraven. "Will nobody think of the sand eels?"
Today we went to Dundee to see the Tartan exhibition at the V&A. I had not realised how close we are to Dundee here, nor that the V&A has an outpost there (in a very fancy new building, opened in 2018). The exhibition was as much fun as you might think, if not more, and the permanent collection also includes a Charles Rennie Mackintosh tea room (entire, but not alas in use as a tea room) and a linoleum elephant (by Paolozzi). When we thought we had seen all we could absorb in one day, and were walking past the Discovery on the way back to the car, Dundee managed to distract us yet again, with a collection of penguin bollards.
Tomorrow we head south, but not yet home: we have booked one more overnight, in Jedburgh.
promise of more to come, as I sort through the photographs.
We spent a wet Tuesday in Crail, dodging showers and buying things (pottery ifrom the pottery, soaps for immediate use and to be enjoyed later from the pharmacy, peaches for dinner...).
On Wednesday we visited the Folk Museum in Ceres: because we had never been there before and because we were curious to see a place called Ceres (Wikipedia says the name means "place to the west" from the Gaelic Siar meaning "west", probably in relation to St Andrews). A fun museum, followed by a brief walk around the village, before we decided it was Just Too Hot, and came home to recover. Recovery aided by the arrival of
helenraven, kindly conveyed by fjm, and we all decamped to eat fish at the Dory, Pittenweem's fanciest bistro.Thursday was the day we had booked a boat trip to the Isle of May. The weather was kind to us, and the puffins were numerous, though not close. I took pictures, of course, but mostly by pushing my camera to and beyond the limits of its zoom.
Or you could just relax, and sit in the sunshine, and admire the birds at a distance as they sat on their rocky outcrop (yes, those tiny specks are puffins) or flew back and forth above us. "The place is infested with puffins!" said
helenraven. "Will nobody think of the sand eels?"Today we went to Dundee to see the Tartan exhibition at the V&A. I had not realised how close we are to Dundee here, nor that the V&A has an outpost there (in a very fancy new building, opened in 2018). The exhibition was as much fun as you might think, if not more, and the permanent collection also includes a Charles Rennie Mackintosh tea room (entire, but not alas in use as a tea room) and a linoleum elephant (by Paolozzi). When we thought we had seen all we could absorb in one day, and were walking past the Discovery on the way back to the car, Dundee managed to distract us yet again, with a collection of penguin bollards.
Tomorrow we head south, but not yet home: we have booked one more overnight, in Jedburgh.
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Date: 2023-06-24 08:58 am (UTC)Puffinses! :o)
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Date: 2023-06-25 05:51 pm (UTC)