A couple of weeks ago we went for another walk in Falkland estate, Fife and were surprised to see this teepee in a field at the bottom of the Lomond hill. The stonework which you might just be able to see is actually part of the family memorial which has some graves in it of the family who originally owned the estate.

We were even more surprised to see that a nearby tree had been got at by those people who festoon things with bits of knitting. I must admit that I don’t really see a lot of point in doing it as with our weather it isn’t long before it all looks grotty and tatty, but it takes all sorts to make the world I suppose and it’s harmless – I think.

From there we walked into the woods, in a direction we hadn’t been in before. We wanted to walk to the Pillars of Hercules, just to see what was actually there, having seen the roadsigns but having no idea why there is a place with a name like that in Fife of all places.

As you can see, there’s a nice wee bridge and burn in the woods but somewhere along the way we took a wrong turning and never did reach our destination, so we’ll have to go back another day and try again. Sadly we didn’t see any native Americans on our wanderings, just a few walkers.

In fact it turned out that we had just gone around in a big circle as this was the view of the Lomonds from the woodland path and the field with the teepee in it is just the next one along. But by that time we were too tired to hike up the hill. In fact this is the first year that we haven’t done any actual hill walking, mainly because the weather has been so bad with rain just about every day. A few years ago we were at the top of this hill when it started snowing, and it was just about this time of the year too. Half way down it turned to rain though, but still it was not my idea of fun. I’m a fair weather walker – I admit it.

This was the last photo which my camera took as when I tried to use it again the screen was all ghostly. I have absolutely no idea what happened and our technical sons have had a look at it but all to no avail. Maybe the teepee dwellers ‘put the kibosh’ on it! I swear that everything nowadays has a ‘die now’ chip in it. Our previous camera developed a big crack across the screen between taking one photo and another, whilst it was just being held in my hand. So a new camera is required and I hate spending money on gadgets because to me they’re just not things of beauty.

I’ve just googled Pillars of Hercules and discovered that it’s an organic farm and restaurant! Not too exciting then, despite the name!