Star having a wee munch before the drive.
Other competitors strutting their stuff.
All competitors were well turned out following a long tradition of maintaining show.
What amazing patience these animals have.
There is a huge amount of nostalgia at play here and reluctance to let go, these machines did the work but cannot compete with contemporary developments.
Horse riding.
On arrival, fields of transport and then the show. Fife Agricultural Association continue to provide a show place for agricultural interests and pursuits. This year’s Show at Cupar North Fife on Kinloss estate includes all the elements of a traditional agricultural show including pedigree and commercial cattle and sheep classes, goats, food marquee, and home produce. There were classes for pets and dogs. There were also over 100 light and heavy horse showing classes and BSJA show jumping, including several Highland Show qualifiers. The Show also featured a Game Fair, large trade stand section, including agricultural machinery, saddlery, quality Scottish crafts. There was a children’s activity marquee and a food and cookery marquee.
I'm not sure of the judging parameters, milk yield? true to breed? What ever, it is still some cow. 
A friend of mine breeds pure Hereford cattle and assures me that this is a cross breed. Magnificent never the less.
On parade and needing a helping hand to get it moving.
It goes on, one superb animal after another.
All Bull maybe even a bit of spit and polish.
The River Tay Logie North Fife May 2009. Today was wonderfully warm and a joy to be in. I pulled in to take a video of which this a still of part. To my bewilderment "Google" have changed the goal posts and method to upload videos. Much I have tried to follow the sign-in details which should link to "youtube" has proved a thankless task. Anyway there could have been more of it.
The Steeple thrusting pointedly in the midst of Newburgh North Fife. Tonight a meeting of the Fife Arts Co-operative at the community arts centre, The Steeple, instigated a positive agenda to fully integrate the use of the design winning conversion of the town hall and corn exchange into a invigorating and active community arts centre with resident artists in hired studios plus workshop events in many subjects. Exhibitions, Music, Arts, Crafts, Video, Film, could even be in Belly Dancing. As events trundle into actuality and indeed as I'm part of, you may see.
Looking down The River Tay Eastwards from Newburgh North Fife to Dundee and Broughty Ferry where the estuary spills out into the North Sea and has over many years deposited the sands of Tentsmuir and St Andrews. Turning ones gaze West upstream towards Bridge of Earn and beyond to Perth just behind the hill. This was at 5-30 pm today at fairly low water within the range of 3 meters of today's tidal difference.
A wee amble on the right side of the hedge parallel to the road by Ballinbreich farm and castle. There,s something about walking and indeed just being in a wood, calming, peaceful even primal.
Higham Woods North Fife, is mainly deciduous, beech and ash on a north facing hill over looking The River Tay and Ballinbreich Castle and farm, it is very quiet and visited by very few, maybe 2 of 3 people per week is home to roe deer and other wildlife. A few miles east of Newburgh on the boundary road. Amazingly here in the relative middle of nowhere there is a WC. Of all places in the world to come across such a convenience is so incongruous. If one is caught short, a simple squat and use of a nearby leaf or two would normally do and yet there you have it, better facilitated than Newburgh. So if you are ever passing this way, you know where to go.
Hawthorn North Fife, Hawthorn grows in many parts of the world, is edible and indeed is a very beneficial health support. Hawthorn contains many substances that may benefit the heart. However, it appears that two substances in particular -- flavonoids and oligomeric procyanidins (OPCs) -- are most likely to contribute to hawthorn's beneficial effects on the heart. Flavonoids may help dilate blood vessels, improve blood flow, and protect the blood vessels from damage. Both flavonoids and OPCs have antioxidant effects.
Quite dramatic in its way, alone and weather battered. The pathway and hillside are covered in gorse bushes releasing a wonderful scent, honey like and quite pleasant.
Potato sowing north fife. In my time living here the agricultural methods have changed, now one machine does the work, fertilising, planting and furrowing in a oner. This tractor at Newington Farm by Cupar, illustrates. There are many varieties, myself I prefer waxy though the fields nearby tend to plant "golden Wonder" and similar which are used to provide for the potato crisp market. High yields, Flowery, good for mash and crisps of course. The Potato Council provides more info. Potatoes, Tatties, Spuds are an essential part to our diet, are of the nightshade family and can induce arthritis in some but also provide cures according to the publication below. 
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Tarvit Drive Park Cupar North Fife, Today I visited this park on the edge of Cupar, it adjoins Tarvit Home farm. The only remaining building of the original 1700s tarvit estate, Tarvit home farm has been described as one of the finest examples of a home farm complex in Scotland. More on this in subsequent posts. Just now the pathways are bordered with wild garlic.
Walking through there is a subtle yet pleasant smell of garlic. Made me quite hungry.
The small woodland ponds are inhabited by mallard ducks and Moorhens.
All in all a very relaxing place to visit and enjoy the equally relaxed wild life.
