30th
April 2017 (Sunday)
.... 09.30 There’s a brisk Easterly
wind coming off the North Sea and this is taking a few degrees off what could
be a really warm
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| Earlsferry beach. |
day. Having said that, I have been down on the
beach and, though breezy, it isn’t as cold as I expected it would be.... but I was
wearing a warm fleece. It’s actually a
nice day for walking round the villages.... and there is a hazy light that
makes interesting photographs: the ‘haze’
will most likely become cloud later in the day; however the forecast is for a sunny, if cool,
afternoon.
20.30 I think that ‘today’ has been the busiest
the villages have been for a very long time... they, the villages (Elie and Earlsferry) were ‘burstin’ at the seams’
in the afternoon; which is when I went
out to get the last four ‘scarecrows’ that I needed to ‘tick off’ to complete
the list. There are more than those
listed; I came across another four, and there are
probably more than that.
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| "Fishy on a Little Dishy" |
My
day has not just involved poodling
around looking for scarecrows.... oh no .... I have been a busy boy. For
some reason, and this slightly bothers
me, ... I woke up in a ‘working’ mood;
the strange thing was, not only was I in the mood for working ... I did
it; ‘worked’ i.e. I’d stripped my bed a couple of days ago so
this morning I washed the sheets etc,
not only did I wash the sheets I did a woollen wash too... all of this
washing dried in ‘nae time’ in that lovely drying east wind! I wonder ..... will we stop getting East
winds from Europe after Brexit? Not
that I’m a lover of East winds mind.... in my opinion, losing the east wind would
be one of the few benefits of leaving the European Union. Now I’ve forgotten what I was writing about
.... oh ... I was telling you how hard I’ve ‘worked’ today. Not only did I do the washing I also
ironed it.... including the sheets, and dish towels. If Maggie ironed sheets and things ... so
do I! Jings .... I feel a tiredness/weakness
coming on when I think of all that.... I’ll need to go to bed early tonight.
The
keyboard that I’m using has lost letters off four of the keys .... i.e. they
are just blank squares: but, thanks to
having done my National Service, where I was taught to
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| "Larry the Lum". |
type, I am able to type
as per usual .... which is surprisingly fast when I think of it. I guess that, subconsciously, I am ‘touch
typing’ as we were taught to do, all those years ago at Wellington Barracks, Aldershot. That said, ‘touch typing’ is hard to do now
as the keyboards come in different sizes.
It
was afternoon before I ventured out to finish off the scarecrow list; I pre-celebrated by having a long rest,
scoffing a ‘Yofrog’, talking to Sarah and Jordan, at Woodhaven Bay. “Yofrog’s” are not only tasty, they are also healthy
.... I’ll be having a few more of those.
When the weather warms up this could
be a popular weekend ‘rest spot’.
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| "Yofrog" with Sarah and Jordan. |
I
left Woodhaven intending to go down to the Sailing Club, stopping at the Ship
Inn on the way to photograph the ‘last’ scarecrow on my list. On the way down Admiralty Lane I spotted
Jimmy bumbling his way up the Toft; this
brought a quick ‘change of ‘plan’ into operation. I’d take the Ship Inn photo then ‘fly’ back
to Ivy to make Jimmy a cuppa. And that
is what I did.
So
.... a busy, and happy day is coming to a close. I feel contented .... especially when I
look at the lovely piles of ironed dish towels hanging in front of the
radiator. Yes... I am a happy, if tired, ‘bunny’ tonight.
Photographs
: Top – Earlsferry beach, Next – “Fishy on a Little Dishy”, Next – “Larry The
Lum”, and Bottom – Sarah and Jordan.
