Beautiful, bright, sunny and warm morning ....
5th
May 2017 (Friday) .... 08.30
We have a brilliant morning .... ‘bright, sunny and warm... warm even
with the wind being from the Northeast.
It is only a
light breeze at present, but is forecast to increase
later; with the incoming tide.
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| Looking west from the Breakwater, Elie. |
I’ve
been along for the paper... and a battery for my kitchen scales.... now all I
have to do is have a coffee and get myself organised.
20.30 I did manage to get myself ‘suited and
smartened up’, then went up to Elie to pick up Lexie, who wanted a ‘lift’. Kinneuchar Kirk was packed for Geordie’s
funeral... hardly any empty seats. The Service, taken by a ‘lay
preacher’, was excellent, with one hymn ... ‘Morning has broken’, and a poem , read
out by the gentleman taking the Service.
Everyone then went to the
graveside ceremony (in the local cemetery) in the warm sunshine. Yes Geordie got a good ‘send off’ that’s
for sure.
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| Chapel Green from The Terrace. |
Funeral’s
(and Weddings) are where people ‘catch up’ with each other; sometimes after long gaps. I was speaking to someone, who asked “is
Neil here?” That came as a bit of a
surprise, as I thought I was talking to “Neil”;
.... Neil McCole. I asked is
“Graham here” to find that I was in fact talking to Graham! As with other villages (and towns), many
of the ‘Colinsburgh Boys’ have scattered around Fife: and other corners, much further afield. It was good to catch up with some of
them; I don’t know the last time I saw
Stuart (Walker), and Graham his brother.
Jim (Wilson), who still lives in Colinsburgh, was there... I was in the
pew in front of him, and ‘William T’, and they gave ‘Morning is Broken’ laldie!
Lexie
and I didn’t stay for the tea and sandwiches .... the Kinneuchar Inn would have
been packed to the eyeballs. We went
back to Elie by way of the Balbuthie
Loan road and I was back in Ivy by 11.30. and in my ‘working togs’ by 11.35! Not that I
intended doing any work... it’s
just that I do not like wearing a suit, collar and tie. My white shirt has been washed, in fact I
washed three white shirts... the one I’d been wearing, and another two that
were hanging in the wardrobe, which I thought might as well be ‘freshened up’.
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| Elie Harbour .... and a cruise ship. |
Tomorrow’s
weather is going to be more or less the same as today’s, cool for us with the
wind continuing to come from the Northeast.
Photographs
: Top – The beach from the Breakwater, Middle : Chapel Green from The Terrace, and Bottom – Elie Harbour... and a cruise ship
... from The Terrace.
