Old road to Carnbee kirk ....

30th October 2017 (Monday) ....12.00     Hmmmm .... it was bright, sunny and cold first thing this morning .... I had to scrape the car windscreen .... the
Gordonshall Cottage.
sky began to cloud over at 10.30 and it’s is now spitting rain.

The ‘girls’ are a happy bunch .... I always get a warm, welcoming clucking from them.   This is the first morning I’ve been able to relax with the ‘girls’ ....not having to be somewhere else in an hour or so.    Wednesday is the next day that will have me in ‘slight flap on’ mode;  we have the Lite Lunch at Colinsburgh at 12.30. 
  
This morning, after conversing with the ‘girls’, and with the sun beginning to warm the air, I walked over to Carnbee kirk;  it’s only about 600 metres or so along the road.    This is a bonnie road to walk, or bike, apart from the bit around the farm;   having said
East entrance gate to Carnbee kirk yard.
that, there is a huge shed full of cattle beasts;   there could be some good close up photos there.   Travelling West from Balmonth the road starts to become photogenic just before you reach Gordonshall, formerly Tam Smith’s place.    Jimmy served his apprenticeship, as an engineer, at Tam's workshop in Anstruther.    From Gordonshall to Carnbee Kirk there are photographs all around!    The ‘back’ way into the kirk is bonnie;   I must explore this further sometime.

Jimmy has been in for a cuppa and blether;  he seems to be coming down with a cold.    I’ll update the Hutte .... then have a look at  the photographs I got this morning. 
20.30    It was an fascinating walk,  that I had along the old Balmonth/Carnbee road.     Gordonshall (Tam Smiths place) looks like it has some interesting history about it.    It has been a farm.... the walls of the steading are still there, but  the doors and
Gordonshall Farmhouse.
windows have been filled in, with sandstone, so that wasn’t done ‘yesterday’.    Also, behind and slightly to the west of the steading, there is a huge wooden building that might have been some kind of factory/workshop of the 1950’s era.    I’ll have another daunder along there .... probably nearer the end of the week.

What was four, formerly Gordonshall farm cottages, is now Gordonshall Cottage , and used for holiday letting.    Having ‘Googled’ it I can say that it is classy, both outside and inside.

Carnbee kirk.
The weather for the next couple of days is forecast to be much the same as today’s was... though we might have a chance of rain tomorrow morning.    Not that I want rain.... but, a couple of days without rain in Bonnie Scotland and I begin to think of desert and sand dunes.


Photographs : Top – Gordonshall Cottage (formerly four farm cottages), Next – the east entrance gate to the kirk yard, Next – Gordonshall House, and Bottom -  Carnbee Kirk.

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