The River Tay July 24 North Fife

Clouds over the house and the river Tay July 24th in north fife. I photograph this many times and indeed some will agree that, Yes I do have my head in the clouds.

An interesting variety of clouds over the Carse of Gowrie

Sunset over the River Tay and the Carse of Gowrie.

Farm steading for sale North Fife

The Old Mill, Berryhill farm steadings for sale, Grange of Lindores North Fife.
Fixed Price £300,000
Property Type : Semi-detached
Public Rooms : 1
Bedrooms : 3
Bathrooms : 3
Garden : yes
Garage : no
The last remaining property in a beautiful steadings development. Set in a spectacular rural location. Internally, the property is finished to an exacting standard, whilst retaining many original architectural features.
The accommodation comprises: lounge with open fire, kitchen/dining room, 3 bedrooms (master en-suite), bathroom, WC/cloaks, double glazing, parking, small private garden and shared gardens, NHBC award.

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The last remaining property in a beautiful steadings development. Set in a spectacular rural location. Internally, the property is finished to an exacting standard, whilst retaining many original architectural features. The accommodation comprises: lounge with open fire, kitchen/dining room, 3 bedrooms (master en-suite), bathroom, WC/cloaks, double glazing, parking, small private garden and shared gardens, NHBC award.
The Old Mill is the last property to be released in this small select development. The property benefits from sealed unit double glazing, LPG central heating, excellent insulation and an NHBC guarantee; indeed the site was accredited with the NHBC Pride in the Job award. Set amidst a spectacular rural location with open views of the surrounding countryside and Loch the property lies approximately one mile south of Lindores Loch, and a short distance from the banks of the River Tay. Excellent fishing is available at Lindores, Black and Golden lochs as well as the River Tay itself. The area boasts many championship golf courses. Communications are excellent with St Andrews 17 miles, Cupar 8 miles, Perth 9 miles, Dundee 16 miles and Edinburgh 45 miles (please note all mileages are approximate). There is a direct rail link taking approximately 50 minutes to Edinburgh from Cupar. Private Schools within commuting distance include Glenalmond College, Kilgraston, Strathallan, Morrison's Academy, Crieff, St Leonard's at St Andrews and the High School of Dundee. Internally the property is finished to exacting standards with particular attention being paid to retaining many of the original architectural features in keeping with the fine Scottish character of these traditional buildings. The accommodation comprises, on the ground floor, impressive Lounge with feature stone open fire, attractive arched window and glazed doors, WC/cloaks, open plan kitchen/dining room with feature former stable stall and a most useful utility/boiler room. An attractive oak staircase gives access to a bright upper hall, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom featuring travertine marble tiles and five piece suite with spa bath and a walk-in shower. There are two further bedrooms and a main bathroom on this level.
Pagan Osborne Property Services
Solicitors and Estate Agents
1 Crossgate
Cupar
Fife
KY15 4HA

Tel : 01334 656525
Fax : 01334 654119

E-mail : property-cupar@pagan.co.uk
Website : www.paganosborne.com

Opium Poppies North Fife

Opium Poppies North Fife, it seems once one recognises them, they can be found everywhere. Indeed they are grown commercially to provide the pharmaceutical industry.

I touched on the subject before.

Red Elder North Fife

Red Elder in Pitmedden forest North Fife dotted about in clear felled ground, it's not native to the UK coming from Canada and the Americas. The fruits can be used for preserves and drinks but must be heated first to destroy harmful compounds, it is a rich source of vitamins, flavenoids and antioxidants.

A young Red Elder tree.

Red Elderberries in easily picked clusters.

An illustrated handbook describes the most common edible plants, their range, uses as food, and suggested methods of cooking.A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants (Peterson Field Guides)

Cottages North Fife

In the gardens of most But an Ben cottages of the nineteenth century, pig houses will be found. These at Corbiehilly North fife are no longer used for the purpose due to restrictions on keeping pigs and the movement of them. In times when these cottages were for farm workers to keep a pig or two was an absolute necessity as employment was close to serfdom with very little money changing hands, instead an oats allowance and maybe milk, tatties or neeps. Hard times indeed.

Maggie's Dundee

Maggie's Centre, Ninewells Hospital Dundee. Yesterday I had occasion to visit Ninewells Hospital Dundee after being ex-rayed at the Adamson Hospital, Cupar North Fife. Yes. On Sunday night I tripped and fell in my home at Flisk and yes I had broken my clavicular (collar bone) at the shoulder end. Treatment, zero other than taking painkillers and using it. Prognosis, 6 weeks or come back again and we will see. 3 days in, it's a good job I drive an automatic car and it's my left. Anyway, coming out of the orthopaedic department that is part of the flatted factory like Main Hospital this came into site, hard to focus with one hand only but worth the effort.




Maggie's Dundee is located at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. Anyone affected by cancer is welcome to drop in to the Centre for a cup of tea and a chat with one of our information and support specialists, to browse the library or to access one of the courses designed to help people live with, through and beyond the disease.
Maggie’s Dundee is fulfiling the purpose for which it was intended: helping people with cancer, their carers, family and friends from across Dundee and Tayside learn how to manage the physical and emotional impact of living with cancer.
Maggie's Dundee was designed by Frank Gehry and was opened in September 2003 by Sir Bob Geldof.

The Wee Book of Kalvin North Fife

Today I joined my friend Harvey Holton to explore a project called Joint Vision. The product will be Exhibitions and publications of mixed media and hopefully intergrated into 1mile2, a three year global arts project. Anyway, Harvey had a copy of the book below. I opened at random to one page headed, "Mean". It said, He could even peel an orange in his pocket, it reminded me of a Alexander Stevenson.

The Wee Book of Calvin. This a true original and everyone in your family should have one beside their bedside candle (before accidently burning the cottage down).We need Bill Duncan and I hope he will take this book and preach with it far and wide and beyond the wild borders of Carnoustie.

Next time you glance at those prissy little books at the counter remember Arbroath on a dreich day. You will feel better for feeling worse.The Wee Book of Calvin: Air-Kissing in the North-East

North Fife July 19th

The River Tay at high water Newburgh North Fife. Even now the water laps near to the tops of the piers and at spring tides, new and full moon' it's at the top, with the predicted ocean rise it won't long before it's over many times. Imagine, so many cities world wide are on the coasts. This is not gloom and doom, just change, but I am glad I live higher on a hill.

Near the top of Newburgh high up as are most houses offering similar spectacular ever changing views.

Normans Law North Fife viewed from the South. Shown before but worth it.

Rumtek Monastery Sikkim

New and Old Rumtek Monasteries Sikkim North India. Above the clouds at about 7,000 ft sits the seat of H.H.Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. For me a day of nostalgia and sadness after learning the other day of the apparent loss of all of the large format colour negatives and transparencies of the Archive work produced 30 years ago. Fortunately I still hold B&W negs of the period which I am now making digital in my studio in north fife.

One of the many Lama dances performed at Losar, New year.

Scottish Thistles North Fife

Scottish thistle flower north fife. Actually it's flowers, for goodness sake they are everywhere having years ago let a few grow to completion, a mistake.

To balance the spikiness there are fortunately roses dotted about, some wild and in this instance attractive cultivated varieties. This beautiful iconic red rose and below older variety pink.

Mushrooms North Fife July 2009

On my way to Cupar North Fife near the hamlet of Rathillet I came across this dead Ash tree sprouting Dryad's saddle mushrooms. Too high up to gather and enjoy.

They are poke you in the eye sights as one travels.

The fruiting bodies are easily seen and well described in the publication below, as are many and with the information provided allow confident eating.

Christopher J. Sharpe "Chris Sharpe" reviewer, like myself bought Phillips' pioneering "Mushrooms and Other Fungi of Great Britain and Europe" when it came out in the early 1980s for identifying British fungi. At the time it was revolutionary in the use of photographs that allowed the author to depict mushrooms much more accurately than the paintings of earlier guides. Until recently, it was still one of the top field guides to this region (also check Courtecuisse & Duhem, and Jordan [ISBN 0002200252]). I still use this volume a lot for identifying American fungi, both in the tropics and northward. Although I have over 200 field guides of different sorts on my shelves this remains one of my all time favourites.
This current book, Mushrooms (ISBN 0330442376), supersedes the older Phillips guide. It follows the format of the original book quite closely, but is now slightly smaller to make it more of a field guide - about the same size as Skinner's "Moths of the British Isles" (ISBN 0670803545) and, although still won't fit into a pocket, it is much more manageable than the older A4-sized book. There are 1,250 photographs, all of the excellent quality one associates with the author. Some 200 extra species are treated. Taxonomy and text has been brought up to date and into line with the standard taxonomy and nomenclature of lists published by the British Mycological Society.
If you're interested in fungi, don't hesitate - this book must be on your shelves. When you consider how much work went into this project, this represents tremendous value for money.Mushrooms