Hello Hello Hivians.
It's going to be a pretty busy week for me and I have been up since 5am this morning doing bits and pieces online. So let me start the week as I mean to go on, and that is in a fun productive mode!
What a beautiful weekend we have just had.
We had things to do in the gorgeous wee village of Aberdour on the Fife coast.
What does the Aber in Aberdour mean?
Did you know that Aber as a prefix means at the mouth of a river, so Aberdour is yes at the mouth of the river Dour.
Aber is actually more Welsh than Scottish, with the Scottish equaivalent being Inver, but there are a few Abers on the east coast of Scotland where we are today.
I shall do more of an indepth post on Aberdour as there is loads to see.
For example that red telephone box or kiosk acts as a bit of an information centre.
We were due to goto Aberdour Castle which I knew where it was, but I did not know where the village hall was.
So I went and asked one of the castle guides who took me to the kiosk to get a map and pointed out the hall on the map!
Village Hall
I had seen online that there was a coffee morning on Saturday from 10am to noon to raise money for the scouts.
As our event at the castle was from noon to 4pm I asked if Mrs T fancied popping into the coffee morning first.
Yes she said!
JIT is back
Well come Saturday morning, someone did not want to get up, so I thought we would not be going!
But Mrs T did get her arse in gear pretty quick and we made it to village hall around 11.30 am.
Yep, we made it with half an hour to spare... We were JIT Just In Time.
We paid our £3 each which entitled us to have 2 cakes and unlimited coffee / tea. I chose the chocolate banana bread and two wee marshmallows with smarties on top.
The coffee was served in mugs adorned with St Fillan's Church being that it was their church hall we were. Note this is in Fife and not the village of St Fillans that is in Perthshire!
Lucky Eddie is back
My mother would call me Lucky Eddie as many good things have happened to me over the years, but I believe we mostly make our own luck, if you don't do something then how can you be lucky etc.
So Mrs T was in a good mood as we made it to the coffee morning and the day was kicking off in glorious style.
I had mentioned there was a tombola where you could win a bottle or some other goodie.
So I was despatched to the tomobola stall, which is at the back of the hall where you see those people standing.
5 tickets for a pound was the price, magic, I will have ten then please.
I was handed 10 of the wee raffle tickets and started top unravel them.
If your number ends in 0 or 5 you might win something the lady told me.
Winner ~ Snowglobe Orange & Gingerbread Gin Liqueur
Mrs T was back at the table watching me, and said she could see the tickets being unraveled and then the woman searching for something and seeing her hand me the globe bottle!
Yeah lucky Eddie pulls one out of the bag.
We joked that it was gold leaf in the globe but I presume it is bits of orange peel.
A fun shaped bottle though!
Artwork
I do like how many places have pictorial representations of the culture and history of a place.
It was a quaint wee church hall and had this pretty pictorial display of Fife on the wall.
And that was our coffee morning, now it was around noon and we hoptailed it across to the Castle to get entertained!
Did you get up to anything exciting in the past few days, or win something perhaps?
Thanks so much for popping in and may you have a fluffing awesome week.
