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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 on display by the till in Toppings bookshop, St Andrews

Looking towards the Cathedral from the East Sands, St Andrews

Strawberry ice cream sundae from Jannettas.

Photo from Wardlaw Museum, St Andrews. A Dalek, plus my husband.

A marvellously daft but fun end to the afternoon, sitting in the car in the rain by the seaside in Broughty Ferry, sharing a jumbo sausage and chips. I've wanted to get down to the seaside for weeks, but with repeated rounds of Covid in January and February here we've kept missing the chance. Plus I am generally too ill with my neurological illness. But this afternoon when I woke late we bundled me into the car, still in pyjamas and dressing gown, and off we went. Had some top quality guilt tripping from a seagull standing on the sea wall beside us. I also enjoyed watching Eduardo Alesssandro's art gallery staff rearranging their window display of paintings while Martin fetched the chips. Good stuff. Soon back to bed, but really enjoyed that.

Oh and yes, if there was ever a more appropriate time to use the Dundee icon from

purplecat I'm not sure what it would be.

I uploaded some photos Martin took by the sea in Broughty Ferry, uploading them to other places. But I thought they might be of interest here too. Here are 4 of the best pictures. This is Broughty Ferry, a seaside suburb in eastern Dundee, Scotland. near where we live.

A very wild seafront scene. At the front of a picture a bench sits, looking out towards a very wild sea, throwing up spray beside and around it. Behind in the distance can be seen a pier and far beyond that oil rigs being worked on, and beyond that the outline of Dundee by the seaside. You can also just glimpse the Tay Road Bridge and Tay Rail Bridge in the distance.

A very wild seafront scene. At the front of a picture a bench sits, looking out towards a very wild sea, throwing up spray beside and around it. Behind in the distance can be seen a pier and far beyond that oil rigs being worked on, and beyond that the outline of Dundee by the seaside. You can also just glimpse the Tay Road Bridge and Tay Rail Bridge in the distance.

A dark bench sitting on a walkway beside the sea, totally drenched with seaspray which fills the image. The sea beyond it looks extremely wild.

A seafront with the land to the left and benches running alongside it, and a very wild sea on the right throwing spray up onto the pavement and benches. In the background is an ornate arch sculpture, and beyond that an old castle with a tower in the middle. Behind is a slightly cloudy blue sky.

Looking across a wild river/sea estuary. There is a small outcrop of land in the middle left, and in the background is more land on the other side of the big river. The sea is wild, and a white seagull skims across in the air from left to right, its wings spread wide, and it outlined against the sea and land beyond.

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A very wild seaside on Friday afternoon

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