Mostly overcast ... but a few sunny spells later.
19th
December 2016 (Monday)
..... 13.00 Welll ... we haven’t been swamped by ‘sunny
spells’ so far today; it has been mostly
overcast, with a cool Westerly wind.
It looks like the best part of ‘today’ was at sunrise time. I was down
there early because, three
quarters of an hour before sunrise, the horizon was a bright orange/ red colour. The first thing I check, after my e-mails,
is the Anstruther web cam on “Fife Weather” ... this gives me an idea as to what
is happening in the South Eastern sky.
The sunrise was bonnie, but not of the spectacular kind.
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| Sunrise with Pat and Dora. |
Most
of my time has been spent getting organised for tomorrow.... finishing packing
the case etc; and making sure that I
have ‘posted’ all the Christmas cards.
I think I have managed to do everyone on the list!
Jimmy
has been in for his cuppa; which was a
very welcome break, after a non-stop morning. I’ll take ‘Sooper Buggy’ along to Jimmy’s
in the afternoon, then spend the remainder of the day tidying up. That reminds me.... I made a couple of
check lists; the ‘plan’ was to print
them off! I’ll go and do that now.
21.30 I’ve had a busy day finishing off the
packing. I ‘ticked’ off the ‘check
lists’ and it could be said that I am ready for ‘take off’. Both case and rucksack are lighter than
usual; but I have all that I need. The laptop and connections are packed, as is
the Olympus camera. Yes I’m ready for
my ‘Festive Season’ in Sussex. This
will be the first time I have spent Christmas in England.
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| Part of Earlsferry High street. |
‘Mooring
up’ Sooper Buggy at Jimmy’s this
afternoon turned into something right out of ‘Last of the Summer Wine’. Jimmy has a trailer parked at the top of
his drive way and I ‘moor’ the car close up to this trailer. Today I went too close, and the trailer
hook ended up under the front fairing of ‘SB’. Wellllll.... you should have seen us trying to get the
two, trailer and car, untangled! Eventually we dug a hole so that the
trailer tow bar could drop below the level of the car fairing. Digging the hole was not easy. Why? .... because Jimmy had laid his
driveway with bricks many years ago, he then had the bricks covered with
chips. However there must have been one
brick short because we got lucky and found that space. Eureka! .... everything back to normal; after about quarter of an hour. We enjoyed a cuppa while watching some kind
of ‘Robin Hood’ film; the cuppa was
good, the film? .... I’d say it
was the worst ‘Robin Hood’ film I’ve ever seen. Maybe it was a comedy film.... it was
certainly good for a laugh.
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| Traffic hold up in Earlsferry! |
I’ll
do a quick Hutte update in the morning;
the evening one will be from Uckfield.
Photographs
: Top – sunrise with Pat and Dora, Middle – part of Earlsferry High Street, and
Bottom – a traffic hold up in Earlsferry!
