Cool morning .....

29th June 2016 (Wednesday)  ..... 08.30    After a bright, and breezy, start to the morning, the sky is beginning to cloud over, and rain is forecast to arrive, sometime
'M' at Kellie Castle
in the afternoon;   a re-run of yesterday’s weather.     It feels cooler this morning... almost autumnal, .... but a nice morning for a daunder .   I’m going to pick up ‘M’ in a wee while;  that reminds me I meant to rattle round with the Hoover etc.   Och .... I’ll forget about the ‘ooverin’ etc, and put the kettle ‘on’.  

  23.30      Oh my word .... the ‘boy’ (that’s me) is going to be late in bed tonight..... this has been a busy busy day.    ‘M’ and I went up to Kellie Castle garden in the morning;   always a nice place for a quiet meander round a beautiful ...  and completely different from Ivy .... garden.     ‘M’ was absolutely starving by the time we’d finished the garden ‘thing’ so we had lunch in the Cafe.... which included a piece of Millionaires shortbread.     The “millionaires” probably refers to the number of calories ....  “Puku” likes calories!     We came home via Elie so that I could pick up
Kellie Castle gardener!
the ‘papers’ ... today is East Fife Mail ‘Day’ ... the highlight of the week.    This week’s ‘news was mostly about the new Levenmouth Academy;   which ‘opens for action’ after the summer break.    The school was built by a Dutch firm BAM .... I wonder how tendering for construction work throughout Europe will change after we leave the European Union?
In the evening ‘M’ and I went out to post a letter, and were lucky enough to meet Myra, who was out walking “SD”.    Myra invited us back to “No 3” for a cuppa;   which turned into a glass of wine.... and an invite to dinner next Wednesday.     Jim, who was busy ‘working’ on his butterfly photographs when he  was rudely interr ... oops, was glad to have visitors.    Actually I think he was much in need of a glass of wine.    We spent a braw hour chatting, .... about ‘this and that’;  including the political upheaval caused by last week’s referendum.   I think most of us,
Myra and 'M'
in Scotland, are still ‘in shock’.
It has been a nice, but ‘coolish’ day.... the trees will be changing colour if this autumnal spell continues.     Wait a minute ... we’ve still to have our summer yet!
Photographs : Top – ‘M’ in Kellie Castle garden, Middle – a busy ‘gardener’ at Kellie and Bottom – Myra and ‘M’ on the Ferry bents.

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