Going bonkers for conkers in Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy Scotland
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It's actually Spring Bank Holiday Monday today but I wanted to finish the walk from Wednesday which you can find the first part... Thank you HIVE for the bollocking and then the second part ... Greenery abounds in Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy Scotland in May
So this then is Part C and running the bush gauntlet
If you remember we were being asked for our paperwork as we were trying to leave Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy.
I left you here ....
This is the inspection tree, he always bends over to inspect your paperwork.
He really is a remarkably flexible old soul, and I hope I can bend over like that when I am his age!
He of course waved us through and told us about the wonderful flowering horse chestnut trees further on in the park.
With all this talk of conker trees I was starting to go bonkers!
"We shall see them soon" said Mrs T
She grabbed my arm and whispered "Look over there!"
What the fluff said I, but can you see in the middle of the picture a pretty wee red robin was watching us from the perch of a branch.
It flew away as I went to take another pic!
I don't know about with you, but here the daffodils die away first and you can seem some of their dark green leaves in the picture.
However what you can really see is the yellowly dead long grass like vegetation is wild garlic. The woods smell wonderful with a vivid garlic aroma all over the place!
Right time is a ticking let's get a march on!
The first time I saw this, I had to write a story. What do you see? A gate in the middle of nowhere! I call it a portal, where does it goooo....
Well it looks like a fenced area, what do you think, a home for goats maybe?
Well there does seem to be some sort of sign, let's go closer and see if it is for goats or maybe some other animal!
Well it's a nice big area, could play a game of frisbee I think!
Woof Woof it's for doggies!!!
Do you have Dog Education Areas for dog obedience training in your area? I have only seen dogs play in there!
Shall we go and play?
Well No!!! We are on a mission, I am bonkers after all ...
There is where we are going, towards the bushy trees...
Let's take the path on the right.
Do you see the flowers on the tree?
Yes this is a horse chestnut tree...
In the Autumn they produce chestnuts or conkers we called them as kids.
They have very distinctive leaves and flowers too.
Is it just me, but is their simplicity their beauty?
Look at that tree, not only did we play conkers as a kid, we used to climb the trees. They were brilliant and strong!
Did you climb trees as a child?
You would be surprised how quickly you could get quite high off the ground!
I was getting hungry so time to head home.
Do you see the yellow balls on the poles?
This is what we call a zebra crossing. Aptly named with the black and white crossing. The amber beacons actually flash and motorists must stop to let pedestrians cross the road.
Time to travel through the time tunnel and eat dinner!
This is my submission for #magicalmonday which was an extension to my #wednesdaywalk from last week.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated.
@tengolotodo May 29th 2023
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FINALLY! I CAN TELL SOMEONE ABOUT MY FUN HORSECHESTNUT FACT WITHOUT RANDOMLY DROPPING IT INTO CONVERSATION!
You aren't the only bonkers one.
Did you know that horse chestnut leaves contain saponins? So you can literally wash your hands with them - scrunch, add water, lather!
YEAAAH baby!
Oh wow!
I checked the source and that is mental. The leaves are cool and now I know they are healthy so to speak too!
Thanks River that was fun to know!
I know right! I discovered it during COVID lockdown. There was a huge tree outside my sister in laws! Glad you liked this awesome fact - now you can share it too!
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Do I see lots of things? Hell yeah! I did.
I do not care àbout the fence being for Dog Education. I am weirdly interested in your first thought of it being a portal of some sort, hehe. Maybe I am going bonkers!
And about the tree climbing, geez, it is fluffy fun going tree climbing. I did a lot of it when I was little and was nicknamed, monkey haha. Right now, I don't think the name befits me anymore, but hey! We can't fluffy agree when I haven't climbed a tree, yet.😁
haha oh you make me smile my fluffy Balikis!
Monkey so you were a climbing monkey, now you are just a mischievous monkey as we say here!
The portal, oh yes I am bonkers, there is another portal on the other side of the woods too!
Hehe, I am glad the smile fluffy came.
Yeah! A mischievous monkey sounds super nice...hehe
I love portals, especially the ones that can take me to places I would love to visit.
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Great scenery! Looks like you had a tasty dinner!
Yeah finally getting warmer so salad time! Thanks well tasty.
Some lovely scenery there Ed. I also have a tree that we used to really batter to get those conkers down as a boy. It gave us so many and big ones too. Those were the days.
hehe Steve you know the drill, I did hear they banned playing conkers at schooling case kids got hurt, now that is fluffing bonkers!
Beautiful and aesthetic views you have here.
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure
Nice conclusion to the walk. I've never seen a dog obedience area before - good idea actually. But it'll do for frisbee too !
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Yeah, I do see dogs playing from time to time, but never seen any dog classes, but good to have a dedicated area!
Ah yeah a frisbee would be good and practice the disc golf lol
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This is beautiful! I can resonate with a number of images. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome
We have some dog parks near where I live. We have never taken Jovi there, but they look pretty cool. I have a feeling she would be afraid of most the other dogs.
aww Jovi sounds a wee softie, so yeah not good taking her where she would afraid.
Yeah, she was a rescue and has carried a lot of anxiety with her all her life.
If only you know how I am smiling now, I love nature so much, thank for sharing.
Smiling is awesome and I am glad that I made you smile :)
This was indeed magical. I love the scenery. That gate in the middle of nowhere is giving me some inspiration as well. I just might write a story too hehe.
hehe the gate I have used before to write and indeed I just did for the wotw!
Awwn. I can't wait to read it then
Beautiful places you visited with nice pictures 😻
Came from @dreemport
Thank you so much Sommy :)
Welcome sir 😁
Well, there only one way to find out:)
Ain't that the truth!
It is
Rofl! You have always been a funny fluffy lad Tengo! I was here thinking that the portal will be a mysterious one and yet it's a place for those cuties yippee! sounds cool to me!!
This is what real adventures look like! The fact that you move around often taking pictures and making memories makes me feel good you know?
hehe Cesca helllloooo yeah I do love to take pictures and document them, so many times pictures got lost, ah well here we can document all the fluffy fun, thank you Cesca:)