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Suburban sprawl


Bland suburban housing developments on the American car-based model continue to extend ever outwards on the outskirts of Dunfermline, while the historic town centre is an ugly mess of gap sites, car parks and windswept waste ground. This new development by Taylor Wimpey is at the head of Whitefield Road and is to be known as Whitefield Gardens. Plenty of houses are being built which are no doubt good for the profits of the construction industry, but which are of no use whatsoever to those people who desperately need housing but are excluded from the property market by age, health or financial circumstances. When are they going to start building houses of the kind that people actually need? Like we used to do. Council houses, they were called.
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Seen in Dunfermline


Street-art featuring three pretty ladies in the pedestrian underpass adjacent to Dunfermline Town Station on 13th November, 2019. Note their very contemporary eyebrows! It appears that a policy similar to that of Transport for London has been adopted here and such grafitti and street-art is over-painted regularly, so I suspect these pretty ladies won't be there for long.

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Aberdour Harbour


When you're on a bus and in a hurry to get somewhere, you seem to spend the whole journey standing at bus stops or waiting at traffic-lights. But when the bus is stopped at traffic lights and you happen to see something interesting from the window, the lights naturally change and it moves off before you've had time to grab your camera and, switch it on and focus on the subject! That's what happened when I spied these rabbits by the roadside between Inverkeithing and Hillend, Fife, on 30th July, 2026. Nevertheless, my new (second-hand) Canon Powershot G5 camera managed to take a surprisingly sharp photo.

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Wemyssware Cat Trail


One of a number of large fibreglass Wemyssware cats which are presently displayed at various locations in Kirkcaldy, in which town the original Wemyssware cats were manufactured. This one, seen outside Kirkcaldy Town House on 24th June, 2026, captures the character of the original cats more accurately than some of the others I've seen.

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An old corner of Dunfermline


A view along Buchanan Street, across St. Margaret Street towards buildings at the end of Monastery Street, Dunfermline, on 10th January, 2026. I thought the narrow street and jumble of old buildings made an interesting picture. The plain grey stone two-storey houses in Monastery Street with drip-courses between the floors and attic dormers, are in vaguely Tudor Gothic style, which was a popular Scottish style in mid-Victorian times. It's unusual to see telegraph wires like those spanning the street between the buildings nowadays, and with telephone landlines being done away with and replaced by fibre-optic cables, I suspect they'll soon be a thing of the past.
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Views from the coast bus


I know this is a very poor-quality photo, but it was taken from a rattling, lurching Leven-to-Dunfermline bus as it sped along between Buckhaven and East Wemyss in the afternoon of 14th March, 2026. I happened to notice a group (not exactly a herd!) of deer in the field and managed to grab my camera, switch it on and point it in their general direction just in time to get them in-shot. They were still there an hour-or-so later when I passed them on my journey back to Leven.

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A white peahen in Pittencrieff Park


A white peahen in the peafowl enclosure in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, on 18th March, 2026. There were many more of these birds (around twenty or twenty-five were listed by name and variety on a notice on the enclosure) than there were when I last visited. They also appear to be free to roam the park now, whereas they were confined to the enclosure previously due to an outbreak of bird 'flu. There were three birds perched on the roof of the building, but I couldn't get a clear view of them in order to take photos.