Our Fife Life Continues

We are continuing to settle in to life in Fife. We've been to a few more places for the first time, there's just so much to do within a 10 mile radius. One of the best things we have done was to go to a Mozart Requiem concert organised by The University of St Andrews. It only cost £10 to go and lasted 3 hours, such good value. There was a Bach Magnificat in the first half then Mozart Requiem in the second half. I adore Mozart so seeing and hearing Requiem performed was a great treat. 

We visited Crail for the first time a couple of weekends ago. We went around the harbour and beach in the morning and then visited an estate called Cambo Estate in the afternoon to go to a Christmas Fair there. I got chatting to a lady who makes felt Christmas Tree decorations and she invited me to go to a workshop she was running to show people how to make them-I went last week and made a Rudolf decoration and a bauble decoration, it was great fun!

Woodland Walk at Cambo

Beautiful colours from this Acer tree

 

 I am also still trying to get a bit fitter and lose a bit of weight so last Sunday we went to a National Trust for Scotland place called Hill of Tarvit and climbed the hill, before we looked around the house and gardens. It wasn't as high as Largo Law we climbed recently but the views were lovely from the top, and it was a clear day so we could see for miles.  The cottage we are hoping to buy is only 10 minute drive to this place, so it will literally be on our doorstep.

 

Hill of Tarvit summit

View towards cottage from Hill of Tarvit

 

 Last Sunday was such a bright and breezy day we decided to visit Tentsmuir forest, we had a lovely walk along Tentsmuir sands and then walked back through the forest. The beach seemed to stretch for miles. I was saying to my OH that on Christmas Day this year we should have breakfast and then go for a long walk along this beach to blow away the cobwebs-lets hope for good weather then!!

 

Someone's dog was having a great splash in the sea!

You can see me and my OH waving to you on this photograph!!

The forest seemed so gloomy after the wide open space of the beach

 



The dew drops on the tree looked almost like jewels



 

I haven't had much time for crochet recently but did manage to do this little bird, it was a kit in Simply Crochet magazine and I thought it was cute so I made it for my Christmas Tree. I've just started a crocheted poncho that is from the same magazine, I'm going to keep it as an indoor poncho as I don't think it will be fit for people to see, but hopefully it will keep me warm in the Scottish winter.

So we are settling in and getting to know the area but I must admit I'm missing my friends a lot from where we previously lived. I guess this will get better as I make new friends but it can feel very isolated here at times. However next week I'm meeting two of my old friends in Edinburgh for the day to do some Christmas shopping-so looking forward to seeing them again!