Model 'T' Ford at Colinsburgh Filling Station .....

20th September 2016 (Tuesday) .... 09.00    Although it is cloudier this morning we have the start of a nice day;   there’s very little wind, and the sun should
Elie this morning
burn off some of the clouds later;   it’s probably a morning for working n the garden!    The beach was gorgeous this morning, at sunrise ... and will be all day, because,  we have an outgoing tide, giving us a ‘big’ beach, and rocks to potter about among.    Yes .... it’s a good day for the garden.    I’ll nip some twigs orf the Buddleia bush;  to salve my conscience. 
21.30    The garden is looking good ....wellll ...  slightly better than it was yesterday,....  the Buddleia bush being minus five twigs.    It has been too good a day to miss the reflection photos that were there for the taking;   so I went out, and ‘took’.    Andrew, Dave, Douglas and Harry were out golfing so I used them as ‘models’, to get some ‘life’ on the golf course photos..... mostly with Kincraig and West Bay in the background.    I was at the top of Lundar Law, but just below where the ‘Polish soldiers’ had a machine gun site, is
Harry, Andrew, Douglas and Dave on the tenth green.
actually a better place  to cover golfers on the 10th green.    I’ll use that the next time.
I spent most of the morning, after doing some household chores, and nipping three twigs orf the Buddleia bush ... up at Chapel Green.    I had a flask of coffee ... and some chocolate biscuits for an eleven o’clock break, at the Boss’s seat.    Jimmy had wended his way up to Chapel Green too, but I had only one cup ... and Jimmy disnae like coffee ... wellll not mine anyway!    He ate the chocolate biscuits.   Brian and Moira were out walking, and stopped for a chat, before continuing on their way along the Coastal Path:  the Chapel Green bit of the Coastal Path i.e.    Chapel Green was a busy place this morning.

In the afternoon I took Jimmy up to St Andrews in his car for his appointment.    We arrived there early, so forced ourselves to have a cuppa in the Cafe, before going to the Waiting Room.    I’m not keen on ‘waiting rooms’  but this one is reasonable;   however, the reading material was boring today;   someone must have taken in a batch of  car magazines.    Jimmy’s appointment went as per usual ... “everything is fine,
Model 'T' Ford at Colinsburgh
we’ll see you in three months” ... and “keep taking the pills”.    We were back in Elie by 17.10.

The weather for tomorrow is going to be much the same as today’s was ... sunny spells with light winds.     I’ll nick another couple of twigs orf the Buddleia bush before going out on the bike.


Photographs : Top – sunrise time this morning, Middle – Harry, Andrew, Douglas and Dave on the tenth green, and Bottom – Model ‘T’ Ford at Colinsburgh Filling Station.   Ford fitted all white tyres to the Model T as standard up until 1914.. the first Model ‘T’ having rolled off the ‘new’ production line in Detroit in 1908.  It took 93 minutes to assemble a Model ‘T’.

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