With the Carribbean fast fading to a distant memory we've been keeping busy with more usual winter pursuits. I enjoy occasional visits to watch Framlingham Town (The Castlemen) who play just five minutes away from our house. I would love to go more often but I don't want to overdose on football and only go during weekends when Liverpool are not on TV. I enjoy trying to take photos of the matches and it's easy to get very close to the action. My last visit was to the 1-1 draw with Wroxham. I missed both goals due to the phone going onto screensaver (duh) but got a few nice shots.
Goal-line clearance
The day after the match it was time to head up to St Andrews where we had promised Sarah that we would do a spot of babysitting while Duncan was on a course. We had a good (though foggy) drive and settled into a four day stay at the Premier Inn as the caravan site closes for February every year.
The fog was still about when we reached St Andrews
Not wanting to hang about in the Premier Inn all day we went on plenty of walks into town and enjoyed coffees in the Cafe above the Golf Museum. Their cappuccino coffee is way too milky but the cafe serves great home baked scones and the views in the sunshine are the best in town.
Over the past seven years I've taken so many photos of St Andrews there's nothing left to photograph so I've been trying to spot some different angles and viewpoints. I liked the shadow in this one although I should have avoided the people.
Experimenting with the phone's portrait mode.
I never tire of the cathedral.
Portrait lens experiment again.
The lobster pot was far more popular on Instagram but this is my favourite photo of the harbour.
Sarah managed some time away from her busy yoga and parenting schedule and we had a lovely few hours at the Botanical Gardens.
We also found time to visit the Dundee University Botanical Gardens. Both gardens are well worth a visit.
We got to see Rose and Melody after school.
We had a game of Junior Scrabble with them and I couldn't help noticing this similarity in both colour and style to the hotel logo. As the Junior Scrabble dates to the 1990's perhaps a young designer grew up with it.
Sarah and Duncan have been reading Swallows And Amazons to the girls for their bedtime story. I was so pleased to hear that they share my love for this classic. They are so into the novel that they recreated Wild Cat Island in Lego.
We've managed two visits to the excellent Dundee Contemporary Arts where we had an nice lunch and watched two poignant films.
If Beale St Could Talk is another look at the inequality experienced by black Americans. It is beautifully filmed and acted.
Capernaum is an amazing tale of refugee life. It's both heartbreaking and (at times) funny with unknown child actors completely stealing the show. If you think Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen had it bad you would not believe the incredible hardship endured by these kids. Although it is fiction it has an air of absolute reality.
I've also managed time to do a bit of antique hunting. I think I may have made some good buys but there's no telling until I've put them on eBay. I'll let you know in my next blog.
Off back to Suffolk now. We're collecting my mum en route to give her a few days break.
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