Lazy day .....
11th
April 2016 (Monday)
... 10.00 When I was down on the
beach, it was ‘bright and sunny’, (this was about 08.00), but it was also cold,
because there’s a brisk Easterly wind.
This wind is bring clouds in from the North Sea now, so it’s beginning
to look, ‘less bright and sunny’, and
therefore colder. I sauntered along the
beach, to School Wynd, then up said Wynd, and home via Bank street etc.,
chatting to various folks on the way.
It’s now breakfast time!
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| Elie this morning |
21.30 My two late nights watching the golf have
caught up with me; it’s an early night
in bed with the book tonight. For me
this has been a lazy kind o’ day: with
the wind being ‘brisk’ and easterly’ I didn’t get the bike out at all, choosing
instead to do a wee bit of ironing, and a fair amount of ‘computer researching’.
The
villages are still busy with, presumably, Easter holiday makers. When I think about it, Easter happened weeks ago... I know ‘cos I went to
the service down at the harbour that day;
and the breakfast in the hall afterwards. Probably the last time I ate. Anyway...
I like the auld place ‘alive’: when ‘The Royal Burgh’ is ‘empty’ there’s less
folk to converse with .... but all I really have to do, is, walk further
looking for any that are ‘out’. Here’s
another reason I don’t like East winds ....
they shorten conversation time:
nobody wants to hang around blethering in a cauld wind! Of course that only proves what I already
know ... ‘good stuff never comes on an East
wind’. Unfortunately that’s going to be the wind
direction for the next few months ... oops days, with ‘ra morra’ having
more in the way of dampness rain.
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| The Royal Burgh this morning |
When
I was down on the beach this evening I was surprised to find a fair number of folk enjoying the ‘bracing’ East wind.... but,
though overcast, at least it is dry.... and, even on a dour grey evening, the ‘Centre
of the universe’ looks especial. Unfortunately
(for me) the tide was ‘full in’ so there was, only a narrow strip of Royal sand to walk on, some of which is now in Ivy .... because I
forgot to brush if off my shoes.
One
of the things I found out ‘today’ was
.... although ‘today’ (as in this very
‘day’) has been uneventful, for me anyway, the worst day ever for ‘nothing’ happening was
the 11th April 1954! Apparently there
was only one ‘important’ person born that day ... a Turkish academic, Abdullah
Atalar (a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering)! So much for all the other folks that were
born on that date, all over the
planet!
Anyway “Happy 62nd Birthday” to everyone born on that date... aye,
including “Abdullah”!
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| Elie Bay tonight |
Jings
.... I was on Skype to ‘M’ a wee while ago, when she started to look alarmed
.... I wondered what was happening; it
was an earthquake, 5.2 on the Ricter Scale, the epicentre of which was on the other
side of the mountain range immediately to the East of Otaki..... about 25 miles
away I should imagine. It’s strange
watching someone sitting through an earthquake ... quite frightening
actually. ‘M’ was mostly worried about
her mug o’ tea spilling over!
Photographs
: Top – Elie this morning, Middle –Earlsferry this morning, and, Bottom – Elie.
