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Diana Jackson

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  • Kirkcaldy ~ A Place of Two Halves ~ ‘Healing Paths of Fife’ in aid of Kirkcaldy Foodbank

    ‘Healing Paths of Fife’ in aid of Kirkcaldy Foodbank Kirkcaldy at its best My last post described the difficulties families are facing making ends meet in areas of Kirkcaldy but the Lang Toon is a place of two halves. There are areas of beautiful well kept stone family houses and terraces near the centre of…

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  • Good News! Money Raised for Local Charities

    I’ve been selling my book ‘The Healing Paths of Fife’ in the past year in local shops with profits going to local charities, including: Kinghorn Community Library Kinghorn Play Parks The Friday Lunch Club (for the elderly) I would like to thank these Kinghorn establishments for their support: The Sea Witch, (a place for that…

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  • The Last Post ~ on Fife for a wee while anyway!

    Before ‘virtually’ leaving Fife and its coastal path for a while to return to Bedfordshire (virtually of course) for a very special centenary and some exciting news related to my writing, I would like to share with you some of the wonderful blogs about my adopted home, the Kingdom of Fife.   The first is…

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  • Diana’s Virtual Tour of Fife ~ The Coastal Path to St Andrews

    Ode to St Andrews On the cliff top majestic ruins enhance the blue skyline, a backdrop of the restless ocean and endless white sands. The cathedral’s greatness living on in the lives of countless pilgrims, a memory of centuries of worship and a legacy of spirituality. A tribute to God. And yet pilgrims also flock…

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  • Diana’s Virtual Tour of the Fife Coast ~ Kirkcaldy

      I’m going to back track along the coast from East Neuk to Kirkcaldy, (pronounced without the ‘l’) which has a long promenade and sandy bay taking you over a mile. It stretches between Seafield Tower and the seals all the way to Ravanscraig Castle and the coastal walk beside the park to Dysart Harbour.…

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  • Scottish Author Book review ~ A Darker Domain by Val McDermid

    This is a multi layered crime / mystery, with flashbacks to the time of the tumultuous miners’ strike in Fife, as DI Karen Pirie works to solve two seemingly very different cold cases. Meanwhile Bel Richmond, a freelance journalist, finds a sinister poster and some blood stains in an abandoned villa near where she is…

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  • Diana’s Virtual Tour of the Fife Coast ~ Crail ~ The Jewel of East Neuk

    My first awareness of Crail was as a jigsaw puzzle, the harbour being so full of character with its wee fisherman’s cottages and boats bobbing in the water inside the protective harbour wall. When you first stumble across Crail you usually park in the village, with ample off the road parking, a neat tree lined…

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  • Diana’s Virtual Tour of The Fife Coastal Path ~ Anstruther

    Continuing my walk along the Fife Coastal Path, following the wee fishing villages of Pittenweem and St Monan’s you come to Anstruther, or ‘Ainster’ as the locals call it. It is from here in the summer that you can catch a ferry to The Isle of May and even over to North Berwick, passing the…

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