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| St Andrews for his 71st birthday |
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| Local products |
On the way to St Andrews is this farm shop called Balgrove. It does a roaring trade with the St Andrews crowd. The produce is good and it is reasonable. It has great atmos and Both very young children and very old children love it. We picked up amongst other things, packets of smoked salmon trimmings for only £1.95 per pack and they were big packs, and we also had lunch at their steak barn...
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| This is what Pa looks like most of the time |
The Steak Barn was very nice and the steak was properly cooked, but the meat was not as nice as the Dexters that Alan sells. I suspect nothing will be as nice as the Dexters that Alan sells. I have stopped eating red meat because of my diet and because of the small matter of inflammation in my joints whenever i do - but i did have a go at it this time because it was so sunny and it was with Ma and Pa.
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| Ma contemplates the menu |
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| This is the much beleaguered bridge - St something - swithins possibly |
Everyone, but everyone takes a picture here. Much to the annoyance of the golfers.
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| Imagine having your wedding day pictures taken here - people go through such great lengths |
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| Here is the crowd waiting for the turn to get onto the bridge |
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| My dad getting ready for his shot |
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| At the 18th hole |
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| Those are the golfers shouting at the people who won't leave the bridge alone |
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I don't think you can actually play a golf game on the Old Course, not a good one anyway,
with people constantly running backwards and forwards at the 18th hole |
The weather was pretty fab. But windy. They are very civilised in St Andrews and credit where credit is due they are all so nice despite the constant idiotic demands from tourists for all over the world. They drove us in their buggies and they answers our stupid questions, they were very patient and good natured and they did this as if we were the first people to ever ask them that stupid question that day. They allowed us to climb all over their golf course and they were so relaxed. This was in stark contrast to The Irish Open, where the entire area was a security zone. I can see the point of BOTH the approaches. I am slowly beginning to think that there is no right way. There is only a well done way and St Andrews and The Irish Open did it differently, but also very well done.
I bought... apart from the body cream which i needed and the gin, cos the bottle was sooo pretty, i also bought a book from Paperchase because my journal which i began almost six months ago came to an end. I began that journal in Cashel by the Bay in Co something. And now i am beginning my new journal. My mom asked me how many journals do you have - i said, hundreds. Where are they, she asked - all over the place, i replied. Because they are literally all over the place.
Lately i have also spent time observing my moods. It is great to be able to do that because i can really enjoy them now - both the times i am feeling crap and the times i am feeling happy. And also i can also enjoy from a position of ... the present. So here is to the present, may it always be with us and gift us. With everything we ever need.
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