Overcast and colder .....

5th February 2017 (Sunday) .... 10.00     It is definitely colder this morning;   I know this because I went out for an early morning walk.    It is a nice morning for walking, even though it is overcast and grey.    “London Road” was busy,
Kaikoura beach New Zealand.
as ever,....the whole of the Southeast will be ‘busy’, and the nearer to London you are the busier it will be.... with cars... and a few dog walkers!     Nae beach to walk the dog along... that said, town dogs won’t be bothered with overgrown ‘tae nails’!
22.30     There has been a big temperature drop today;   it feels more wintry again.     I have to say I’m happy enough with the way our winter is creepin’ past..... Spring is ‘just round the corner’.

Apart from going to the “Buxted Inn” for lunch, this has been a quiet, restful, day.    The original Buxted village was close by Buxted Manor, and, like Balclevie back home, was removed to suit the local landowner, Lord Liverpool, who wanted to ‘improve’ the’ park lands around the ‘manor.    Only the church, St Margaret’s, “stood staunin’, in the middle o’ nae where”, reminds us that there was once a village around it!....  and a nice church it is.    However the village was only moved, ‘lock stock and barrel’ a mile ‘doon the road’;  unlike Balclevie which was simply ‘removed’.

The “Buxted Inn” is a nice Hotel, and was busy at lunchtime:  the food is excellent, and the staff friendly:  oh... and the their Lemon Meringue Pie is the best I’ve ever tasted.    We got back to “No1” in time to watch  Italy v Wales in the Six Nations:  
Typical New Zealand highway.
Wales won 33 – 7.
My ‘plan for tomorrow is to have my haircut;   if the weather is amenable.    I’m not keen on this temperature drop.      I looked up the ten day forecast for Fife, and the temperature is going to be really cold up there .... frosty.    Of course longer range forecasts can be wrong;   so can short range ones.

Michael and I have been watching a programme all about a strange object that was brought up from a ship, wrecked 2000 years ago off Greece.    The object thought to have been invented by
Colin and Sue in their 'wildlife garden'.
Archimedes, turned out to be a ‘computer’ that recorded the movement of the moon, and the five, then known planets..... all handmade, from brass.    After years of research a modern, working  replica of  the instrument now exists.    Brilliant programme!

Photographs : all three taken in New  Zealand two years ago.    Top – Kaikoura beach, Middle – Typical New Zealand road,  and Bottom – Colin and Sue’s ‘wild life garden’.

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