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Largo War Memorial 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The memorial is set by the A915 on the road from Leven up the Fife coast to Crail (or across Fife to St Andrews) just out of Lower Largo before the raod turns up to Upper Largo. The memorial obelisk i...
Foreign Parts by Janice Galloway 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Vintage, 1995, 262 p. The thing that struck me most about this book was its typography. Passages a paragraph long – sometimes smaller, rarely longer, though the paragraphs obviously vary in size – ar...
Dumbarton 3-1 Morton 25 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
SPFL Tier 2, The Rock, 25/8/13 Well. We don’t normally do league wins in August. Having said that, it was only two seasons ago we humped East Fife 6-0 at their place on the 27th (making up for the ...
Fife’s Art Deco Heritage 10 (ii): Leven Again 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
When I pass through Leven I usually don’t go via the town itself but use the A915 which only goes through the upper part. Last time though I went via the A955 and consequently viewed not only the War ...
Leven (Scoonie Parish) War Memorial 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The Fife town of Leven lies in Scoonie Parish. It is the dead of Scoonie Parish which the memorial commemorates. The main memorial is an obelisk set in well kept surroundings and carries names of WW1...
Grounds for Complaint 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
I was in St Andrews last week and spotted this notice in a cafe’s window. Sit in coffee? I’d rather not.
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Orion, 2011, 227 p. This is courtesy of my not-quite-yet-but-might-as-well-be daughter-in-law. She now has a box set of Rankin books and so this one, a 2011 reissue of a 1998 edition of the first Reb...
Scotland’s Art Deco Heritage 30: Musselburgh 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Musselburgh has at least three Art Deco buildings. This is the David Macbeth Moir pub on Bridge Street, a Wetherspoon’s. (David Macbeth Moir is a historical local worthy.) The building was formerly ...
Black Opera by Mary Gentle 19 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
Gollancz, 2012, 680 p. The book starts atmospherically with a prologue scene set around the eruption of the Indonesian volcano of Tambora in 1815, which provided the loudest sound in recorded history...
Musselburgh Bridges 19 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
No town feels complete unless it has a river. In Musselburgh the River Esk runs through the town. I spotted three bridges there. This first one carries the main road over the River Esk. The photo wa...
