Elie (and Earlsferry) Scarecrow Festival ... Day one

28th April 2017 (Friday) .....   09.00  and we have a beautiful morning for “Elie (and Earlsferry) Scarecrow Festival” Day One;   bright, sunny and warm with very little wind;   it is forecast to cloud over in the afternoon , but to remain dry.     The ‘Festival’ ends on Bank Holiday Monday.     Maps can be bought (£2) from the shops in Elie.    ‘Your’ money goes to the Elie (and Earlsferry) Fayre Day Group.... and all the money it raises goes to support various local organisations and charities.

'Greybeard and Bush Baby'.

21.00    It has been a lovely day for wandering around the villages looking for ‘scarecrows’ .... and we have had a lot of folks doing just that.   It is a good family event, and not only do you have the fun on looking for the scarecrows, you get the joy of wandering around our lovely villages;   and there are convenient places to stop for a rest and refreshments:  don’t forget to visit the harbour!

I went out for a walk along the beach first thing this morning and it was absolutely stunning .... the ‘Mara’ seaweed gatherer’s were working down  among the rocks at the edge of the tide, on what must have been a perfect morning for them.    It certainly was a perfect morning for a walk along the beach.    I went up to the High Street  to photographs the ‘Ferry’ scarecrows then ambled home by way of  the High Street to Ivy and a cuppa.    Jimmy appeared, for his morning visit to the Hutte, with his, usual, accurate timing;   arriving, just as the kettle reached the boil.   We discussed this and that ... the outcome of which was that I’d join Jimmy for a visit to the Windmill in the afternoon.

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Adam was a Gradener.

hen Jimmy left, to go down to the harbour, I took the camera and went out to photograph some more of the local ‘scarecrows’:   ‘Jo’ (near neighbour), who had been along to Elie for the paper, appeared while I was doing this;   her ‘plan’ for the afternoon was to go round Kincraig Point.    That is my kind o’ plan!    Mind you it takes me a lot longer to do that walk now, but, on a braw day, it is a bonnie way to spend ‘time’.

Chris was in excellent ‘form’ this afternoon, as was Wilma and Dot:  ‘Dot' chatting

Jack and Victor.

happily with all and sundry .... I’m in there somewhere.   ‘Dot’ was the Head of some Office in the GPO in Edinburgh .... and ‘hires and fires’ her fellow Residents... and me, on a regular basis.    I was ‘fired’, then ‘hired’, then ‘fired’, again, all in the course of 10 minutes.    ‘Dot’ is actually an interesting person to listen too, because much of what she says probably did happen.   Maggie worked for the GPO in Edinburgh, but not in the same office as ‘Dot’.

My ‘plan’ was to go out with the camera in the evening but it turned awfie grey and cool so I’m going out on the bike with the camera tomorrow;   the forecast is ‘good’.

Photographs :  all ‘scarecrows’ ... Top – ‘Greybeard and Bush Baby’, Middle –  ‘Adam was a gardener’, and Bottom –  ‘Jack and Victor’.