Fife
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Diana’s Virtual Tour of Fife ~ back home in Kinghorn
Returning home a moment from my virtual tour of Fife, here’s just a wee taster of a poem in The Healing Paths of Fife: Ode to Kinghorn You stole my heart the moment we met as I gazed down from the Braes. The warm sun captured in the palm of your hand even on the…
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Diana’s Virtual Tour of The Kingdom of Fife ~ Dysart of Outlander Fame!
Dysart is one of the locations of the popular series Outlander, which I’ve only just started watching on DVD. It is my Tuesday evening treat when my husband is out at Rotary! We discovered Dysart fairly early on during our first stay in Kinghorn by following the sign to The Harbour Master’s House from the…
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Kinghorn ~ Diana’s Virtual Tour of the Kingdom of Fife
My first memories of Kinghorn were looking over the Braes down to Kinghorn Harbour. The Village Show in August 2013, admiring the lengthy carrots and mouth watering scones and sponges, not to mention the vibrant village atmosphere, coincided with our second visit. We also enjoyed a warm welcome at The Wee Shoppe, a place…
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Diana’s Virtual Tour of the Kingdom of Fife ~ Cambo Gardens
Breaking my rule of writing these posts chronologically I am jumping to the present. Today we visited The Snowdrop Festival at Cambo Gardens between St Andrews and Crail. It is two years since our last visit and the restoration work they have carried out on Cambo Country Estate is remarkable and its history is…
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Walking over The Queensferry Crossing in aid of our new Kinghorn Community Library
In two weeks’ time, on Sunday 3rd September, we are lucky to have been allocated tickets to walk over the new bridge over the Forth, The Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh, Scotland. It will be a motorway linking Edinburgh with Fife and the north, leaving the old road bridge initially to be repaired and then to…
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Andrew Carnegie Would Turn in his Grave but …
Looking backwards …The father of public libraries, Andrew Carnegie, was born in Dunfermline and so it is unfortunate that many libraries in his home county, the Kingdom of Fife, should be closing in 2017. Over 600 libraries opened in the UK in the latter part of the nineteenth century, due to this man’s vision. I…
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Multi Genre ~ Who on earth is the target audience?
Writing a multi genre book caused a few challenges and I’m still not sure whether I chose the best path. Having said that, of all my books, it was most fun to write! The Genre I chose were Memoir, Travel, History and Fantasy. This list was not exhaustive. I could have added ‘Motivational and Inspirational,’…