On the other side of this strange carbuncle in Kirkcaldy's war memorial gardens is a plaque that tells us that it's a  monument, unveiled in July by Charles and Camilla, erected to celebrate the centenary of Kirkcaldy Galleries. Glimpse them in the background. 

I'd gone over in the expectation of seeing a centenary exhibition. In the cafe there was a fine display of a number of items from the over 1000 pieces of Wemyss ware pottery they possess.  Apparently you can tour their collection centre in Glenrothes to see the lot. I squashed my phone up against the glass case to get this larg snout.

There was also a large circular tapestry showing significant local/world reminders of each of the decades since 1925.  I didn't get a picture of that nor did I find much else in the way of exhibition but I didn't go upstairs.  It may have been there despite an absence of signage.

But it was a nice warm sunny day and I had a coffee and a sweetmeat across the road in the grounds of the Adam Smith Theatre.

I have had one other trip this month when I went to Aberdour to have lunch with a friend up from Englandshire. Pleasant lunch but awful weather which drove me straight home when I'd much rather have had a wee saunter.

Another lunch out was with Claire and Ross in Stockbridge.  I'd gone down there early with the intention of getting a haircut but was turned away from no fewer that five barbers such was the frenetic male grooming activity going on.  I whiled away the time in the library.

The Golden Spurtle was a fun documentary film about the 2023 World Porridge Making Championship.  There were delightful vignettes of both organisers and competitors revealing their interesting and generally unconventional personalities to camera. 

Not revealing much of his personality was the quiet protagonist of The Boy and the Suit of Lights.  He very much gave off the strong silent type vibe in this Spanish documentary.  He was set on the path of becoming a bullfighter but it turned out this was largely to satisfy his grandfather's thwarted ambition and when his grandfather died he packed it in.

It's been a quiet month.