#paps of fife

[its-moopoint]

While shippers keep track of CT's and S's lives everything they distort is factual correct. No games played as they want followers to believe.

- Spotting C/T & baby is normal and usually people respect her privacy - - C didn't hint anything, she posted a thank you for SOC invite - - Lauren Lyle interviewer mentioned his connection to OL through his good friend T who is married to CB - - Not the first time cast members acknowledge SC aren't together - - CT not doing an IFTA pap walk but attending together as a married couple - - C was happy to be out attending The Fratellis - - CB cut hair for a new movie just like she did for FvF - - CB only mentions T if asked - - CB attending play in NY could also have had another professional reason - - CB can be tagged by friends as normal people do.

SH is doing his own thing completely separate from CB.

ES #realfairy wrote:

Droughlander isn't over …

Droughlander isn't over …

Since February, when the wrap was announced, we've been thinking about some possible mischief that could happen until this season of Droughlander is over.

It was a joke between friends, but looking at the number of hits, I think these 'hunches' could be written about here.

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1 - A discreet fan spots C 'with her family' but doesn't publish photos in the name of privacy ✔️

2 - Sam is seen in the background of random photo/video that suspiciously gets posted to tumblr ✔️

3 - Pap walks with a blonde

4 - Cait hints she's in city X, Sam hints he's on the other side of the world ✔️

5 - Sam does another super expensive meeting for fan ✔️

6 - New Russian video

7 - Interview with random cast member who mentions Caitriona Balfe's husband ✔️

8 - Totally out of the blue random cast member reveals that Sam and Cait ARE NOT a couple ✔️

9 - Cait does pap walk with T at IFTA - in case of a win, there will be a special thank you ✔️

10 - Deux Moi releases note of Sam's sighting with 'a blonde' ✔️

11 - Cait publishes some innuendo about The Fratellis ✔️

12 - Sam appears in a fan photo in a completely unexpected location ✔️

13 - Cait cuts her hair again ✔️

14 - New change in Sam, Priyanka and Celine Dion's film ✔️

15 - Cait gives an interview and the article mentions her husband

16 - PapWalk for Just Jared ✔️

17 - Cait dedicates the new batch of gin to her husband

18 - Monika Askmit does another podcast badmouthing Sam

19 - Cait attends a fashion/cinema/arts event and T appears in the background of the post-event photos

20 - A fight breaks out in the fandon and shippers are thrown into the fire ✔️

21 - Sam appears like an old bloke in the background of a party photo/video

22 - ONE MORE of Sam's 'exes' gets married ✔️

23 - Sam and Cait do ZERO OL promo events together

24 - Sam turns up at a stadium with Sophie or Alex N, OR Marina, or Nico, or Cirdan ✔️

25 - Sam posts a shirtless photo ✔️

26 - Sam appears on a talk show and claims to be single once again ✔️

27 - The Nic couple do something completely over-the-top, drawing the attention of the entire fandon to themselves ✔️

28 - Several models/influencers are pointed out as the new flavor of summer, with the expected insinuations on social media ✔️

29 - BONUS: Cody Kennedy follows Sam and he follows her back (Cody deactivates his IG) ✔️

30 - BONUS: Victoria L (ex Heughan) posts selfie on a beach in Fife, with friends and family - including Sam and Chrissie Heughan, sparking a HUGE row in the fandon ✔️

31 - BONUS: Cait (after a sighting of the happy family in Glasgow) is spotted at a theatre in NY, while Sam, also in the US, was missing ✔️

32 - BONUS Damage containment: Cait appears in a random place with T ✔️

33 - BONUS: Cleveden appears on estate agent's website, put up for sale ✔️

34 - BONUS: Cait and Sam's recordings end at almost the same time and both disappear for a week, then appear out of nowhere in different places around the world ✔️

35 - BONUS: weekly rounds of "Look here, don't look there" ✔️

36 - BONUS: Anna Modler, as well as getting married, is pregnant ✔️

37 - BONUS: Cait is tagged by a friend, watching an Irish football match while Sam is obviously in another part of the world ✔️

38 - BONUS: Graham and Garance launch a drinks company and a big row breaks out in the fandon ✔️

Some things didn't happen, other things happened more than once, overlapping or combining with each other … but some really unexpected things have happened …

It's been fun and it doesn't have to be much more than that.

Anyway, Droughlander isn't over. We'll see how many more items are ticked off this list, or what else might happen …

Sep 1st, 2023

To sum her piece of bullshit up, they are celebrating not knowing where C has been and pretending in their delusion that she was with S but never seen either while he's broadcast his every move.

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East Lomond Hillfort

This week we drove out to Fife to visit the hillfort East Lomond for a hillfort tour. This Iron-Age-style fort is likely associated with the Venicones, a Southern Pictish tribe. One of the first things that was found here during excavations was a pictish stone, a stone slab with the carving of a steer, a castrated bullock, which may point to the use of agriculture in the surrounding area. Fife still has copious amounts of farmland nowadays. When we arrived, a heavy cloud was sitting on the hills and the top of the hillfort was shrouded. A strong wind was pushing clouds past us, occasionally revealing the shape of the fort. Eventually we entered the cloud and made our way to the top.

Unsurprisingly, there was no view to be had from, but if you look closely around the column (which shows you the surrounding mountains you could potentially see), you can see a circular raised edge. This is likely the outline of a broch, a big stone tower, that once stood on top of East Lomond.

Everything is covered in grass. There are only vague outlines suggesting walls, bumps and lines suggesting former buildings. However, excavations uncovered plenty of things, for example prehistoric and Roman pottery, a Bronze ring-headed pin, an iron horse-bit, shale and glass armlets, an ingot mould, a crucible and a rotary quern. The abundance of everyday items suggests a site which was occupied permanently. Even a Bronze Age tomb was found. On the picture below you see the ramparts. There probably would have been a big wall on top back in the day.

When we got out of the wind, the clouds blew apart for a brief period and revealed the village of Falkland on the plains below:

It’s a very picturesque village and one of its attractions is Falkland Palace, which you can see to the right:

On the other side we had a view towards Lothian. The faint outline of Arthur’s Sea and the Crags, two landmarks of Edinburgh, was illuminated by the low Winter sun. Arthur’s Seat itself is a hillfort. Its occupants must have been able to see East Lomond as well. 

As we descended, we came upon a long wall with a ditch, following the shape of the hillfort downwards. This was probably the lower part of the ramparts.

This is what the other side of the hillfort looks like. The gentle slope on the left is probably the way people would have gone up to the top.

On the way back we stopped by the lime kiln. In the 19th Century limestone was broken up and burnt in this kiln, in order to be mixed into the acidic soil to improve crop fertility. It was backbreaking labour, as the men toiled from 4 am (!) till 5 pm, breaking up roughly 2 tons of stone, inhaling smoke and dust in the process. The arches were ‘draw holes’, facing different directions, so that the burnt lime could be drawn out facing away from wind and rain.

By this point the heavy cloud had vanished and the setting sun lit up the hillfort:

As we descended towards the car park, we could see West Lomond, a much bigger and steeper hill, the other of the two ‘Paps of Fife’, the most notable ‘bumps’ in the otherwise relatively flat landscape of Fife. The day ended quite differently from how it started.

Click here if you want to watch the hillfort tour on Youtube.

[cruelsister-moved2]

pics from my travels this time <3

[steeleyespan]

car window pics.... hills my beloved

[bones-ivy-breath]

It is the grand masculine colonial tradition to talk about women as if they were a conquerable landscape—from Sir Walter Raleigh's naming of Virginia after a virgin queen, through the way that residents of the Kingdom of Fife adoringly calling the Lomond Hills the 'paps of Fife', or the 'breasts of Fife'. In the pale teal mornings I would lie back on my grandmother's cold garden lawn and compare my growing chest bumps to the horizon.

Unfuckable by Cara Ellison, from Becoming Dangerous

[thebeautyis]

I never really knew what to make of the Fife kissing photos - seems odd to me for them to be ~rehearsing~ kisses like that. The crew seem indifferent to their PDA/rehearsing too which is amusing. But then again we now have new head-on-shoulder cuddling and walking around looking like a sightseeing couple which leads me to believe that those 2015 photos are practically pap shots but they're just conveniently in costume and on location so it's easy to wave off as ~just~ work related.

hahahah YEP! There was a lot of discussion when the pics first came out as to whether they were filming or BTS but so many of the pics were so clearly BTS, esp that one of Sam eating Cait’s face, that it just made sense the rest of them would be too. I’m firmly on the BTS boat!

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Kinnoull Hill, Perth

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West Lomond, Fife

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Due to strong winds, headphones are recommended for a better audio quality. This week we went to Fife for a hillfort tour of East Lomond, one of the 'Paps of Fife'. Enjoy!

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Along the Scottish East Coast on the train to Edinburgh.