31st
May 2016 (Tuesday)
... 10.30 We have a cracker of a
morning here in the East Neuk.... warm and sunny, though the ENE breeze is
taking the edge off ‘warm’, if you’re out in the open. I went out on the bike at seven o’clock,
going
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| Elie harbour |
round all my favourite places;
Chapel Green, Elie harbour beach, then Elie Estate, a distance of 10.94k, but I’d already done, at least 750
metres before I remembered to switch
‘on’ the ‘Tracker’, so I’m going to credit myself with 11.5k ... just
over 7 miles; easily, and enjoyably done
on a day like this. Since then I’ve
had breakfast, and hit the garden running;
I’d like to be able to take some photos in the evening! The temperature in the garden, sheltered
from the easterly breeze, is 19c already.
Must ‘go’ there’s much to do, and enjoy, today.
22.30 It has been a beautiful, dare I say it?
.... summer like day; warm and sunny ...
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| Elie harbour |
though cooler if exposed the easterly breeze/wind. 21c was the highest pointed reached on the
Ivy garden thermometer, so it was warm.... and it might be much the same
tomorrow, though the morning may start cloudier.
I’ve
had a busy day, mostly in the garden.
I did get a good bit of tidying up done, and took four bags of weeds
along to the skip at Pittenweem... all before lunch time. Shona, who is biking to keep fit, was
passing, and dropped in so I added ‘anither tautie’ to the pot and we had
lunch... and chatted about the Barnyards Meeting, to be held in June. Jim arrived so we had another cuppa, and
chatted about, mostly, about ballet;
Shona had gone to see the modern version of “Swan Lake”, in the Festival
Theatre (Edinburgh), at the weekend; which got us onto this subject. At the end of the discussion it was agreed
that I should not take up
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| Brian putting on the seventeenth green |
ballet!
Apparently I don’t have the physique that’s required! Jim and Shona left and I then had a look
around the garden, before deciding that
I was finished gardening for today. I
had another cuppa!
Jim
and I went along to Jimmy’s in the evening, and ‘rattled his cage’ .... Jimmy
was watching some programme about fitting an aircraft jet engine into a .... wellll
.. a ‘speedboat’. Of course we sort of
watched the programme and chatted at the same time: at the end of the programme it did look like
the boat could move very fast, but I didn’t see the point of it all: I can’t imagine them becoming best sellers! As far as I could see it was fine, if you wanted
to go very fast, in a straight line.... but that was it.
Photographs
: Top and Middle – Elie harbour early
morning time, and Bottom- Brian, my brother, putting on the seventeenth green.
