Off to St Andrews today

Going ahead with our flying trip to St Andrews today. Even with the Lammas Fair on! We are aiming for Toppings, the Cheesy Toast Shack and the Wardlaw Museum to see their temporary Alien Worlds exhibition about exoplanets plus added Dalek and Galileo. St Andrews is hugely special for us. Martin and I met there as science undergraduates, graduated together 30 years ago, and married (eloped) a few months after graduation. It was also my childhood summer holiday destination throughout the 1980s with my parents, staying in Albany Park. We live away now, but close enough that we can visit as much as able to (my progressive neurological disease is the main limiting factor for that now). That was a very deliberate strategy!

Painting by Kate Philp below. Prints available from Eduardo Alessandro Studios in Broughty Ferry.

Photos from St Andrews

Had a lovely trip there today. Our hopes were to get to Toppings bookshop, lunch at the Cheesy Toast Shack at the East Sands, then the Wardlaw Museum (University of St Andrews) for their Alien Worlds temporary exhibition. We managed all that, plus bonus ice cream at Jannettas. All despite the Lammas Fair being partly underway. My Blue Badge helped me park despite that. Home now. I will be felled tomorrow and Sunday after this. But so happy I made it. St Andrews is a very special place for both my husband and me.

Here are some photos from the day.

Books haul

Here are the three books I bought today in Toppings St Andrews and at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews.