DATE: Tuesday 15 August, 1995

PLACE: Derculich Farm, Strathtay

WEATHER: Cool but clearing

Tracking the Edies in Fifeshire

REMARKS: Edie and Shepherd country - the kingdom of Fife.

We find Cowdenbeath, enquire at the Council and Library, try the cemetery but find no trace of Shepherds.

Lumphinnans is a narrow strip of housing on a low ridge. The whole area has a distinctly working-class, semi-impoverished feel: mean streets and houses, treeless, gardenless, without cheer and feeling deserted.

Even a leisure park on the site of an abandoned open-cast mine is a weak attempt to ameliorate what is, to us, a nearly god-forsaken suburban landscape.

St Andrews on the other hand is a cheerful quaint middle-class town. Desiree and the kids try a Sea-World attraction and the beach, while I track down a tape by Wolfstone and sample Firkin Brewery's Dogbolter' -thick, dark, syrupy, and sweet.

The evening is a ceilidh in Aberfeldy, a charity fund-raiser in the Black Watch Inn. It's hard to tell what appeals most to the kids -the music and dancing, or the chance to stay up late. We may pay tomorrow for the late night.


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