On 7^th Jun in Beveridge Park I took these photos of the small train which occasionally plies its way round a loop of track to the northern end of the Park. They don’t get this train out very often – or else I’m not there when they do. There was a small queue waiting for a ride, not all of them children.

You may remember some years ago I posted a photo of the fountain in Beveridge Park with its water frozen. For a while the pool around the fountain seemed devoid of fish. It must have been restocked because I was able to get this shot of quite a few carp. I was lucky with this. Unless the sun’s angle is right it’s difficult to see the fish.

At the back end of May I took this photo of this year’s Beveridge Park cygnets (still six) – not to mention the parents and a duck.

About a week ago in the Beveridge Park I took these two photos of 6 cygnets and an army of goslings. You can see trailing from her mouth the weed the pen has pulled up from the bottom of the pond to feed the cygnets.

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It’s not just Irish and US shelves at my local supermarket. Thay have only added to what has for a while been the obligatory Polish aisle, part of which is shown below, with a close up.

Two days ago we were in the Beveridge Park, Kirkcaldy (without the camera) and for the first time this year saw the local swans’ new brood of cygnets. We counted 7 young ones – good going we thought: previously the pair have only ever managed two offspring!

The geese beat them to it. Last week we had seen about 12 goslings on the water.

Today – with camera – there were sadly only 6 cygnets. You can see them here:-

The cob was off in the background chasing the geese on the path which surrounds the pond.

Slightly earlier three of the cygnets were on their own a bit.

The other three had stuck close to mum.

While we were going round the path some more-newly hatched goslings crossed in front of us.

The cob had left the water to chase the other geese well away and was displaying fiercely.

Beside the Irish shelves in my local supermarket there are no less than two others of produce surely intended to be sold in the US.

A few of these things I’ve read about, Hershey bars (chocolate,) Jello (jelly.* – At £1.50 a packet no less. One of the packets was chocolate flavoured; how do you get chocolate flavoured jelly? The picture on the packet showed the stuff was opaque. Weird.) Lifesavers(??) Hominy grits. The rest is more or less a mystery apart from what were obviously cereals.

I suppose this has turned up here because the supermarket concerned has just abandoned its attempts to make inroads into the US market.

Here are two close-ups. Click either side to enlarge.

What on Earth is this stuff?

(*What Usians call jelly we call jam, I think. See my post on Jelly Jungle.)

There’s some nice 50s style pierced brickwork on the gable end of this lawyer’s building in Kirkcaldy.

But it’s the company sign itself which made me do a double take the first time I saw it.

They can’t be that bad, surely!

Just down the same street (where the Sheriff Court can also be found) is this mob.

It would be as well not to fall foul of the law in Kirkcaldy, then.

Repairs are now underway on Kirkcaldy sea wall. These were new reinforcement rods inserted into the wall. (They were starting to rust already.)

This one shows the wooden shuttering prior to the concerte being poured.

The new wall top. Barriers still in front, presumably while it sets.

In December there must have been quite a big storm as the upper part of a portion of Kirkcaldy’s sea wall disappeared. Barriers were erected to prevent the public getting too close.

This photo shows a rusted spar which was part of the lost concrete’s reinforcement.

And this shows another.

This side of the ground houses the old main stand at Stark’s Park with its round-the-corner construction. I don’t think I’ve witnessed anything like this at any other football ground. I assume the line of the road prevented building beyond the halfway line.

This is the adjacent home stand, a clone of the McDermid Stand at the other end.

And here is the disused Railway Stand. Many supporters would like to see this opened up as terracing but the authorities in Scotland don’t go much for all-seated stadia reverting to standing. areas.

Note the state of the pitch last Saturday. It’s amazing football broke out at all.