Manchester Arena terrorist attack ....

23rd May 2017 (Tuesday)....  09.00    The ‘News’ this morning is horrible;
E Type Jaguar.
   a terrorist attack in that killed 22 and injured a further 59 at the Manchester Arena.    The barbaric attack happened at the end of a concert by Ariana Grande;   innocent young folk enjoying themselves, brutally, and indiscriminately, murdered.  
    We have a mostly overcast morning, with a brisk South Westerly breeze.    Jimmy wants to go to Leven for a haircut so I’m in ‘flap on’ mode .... the door bell has ‘rung’.
22.30     Understandably, the atrocity in Manchester is the News;  other things have happened, but, ‘terrorism’ is on everyone’s mind today.    Unfortunately there is no
Wend surfing lesson.
place on ‘Mother Earth’ safe from a warped mind.    My thoughts are with all those who mourn,  those worried about injured loved ones, and all those who were there and will have this terrorist act imprinted on their mind for the rest of their lives. 
      
Jimmy and I went to Leven as ‘planned’:   we did some shopping in the ‘Cheap Shop’, went to Sainsbury’s and had a cuppa, then Jimmy had his haircut.    We were back in Elie, and ensconced in the Sailing Club by 11.00.    The ESMS (Edinburgh Stewart Melville’s Schools) pupils were already out on the water, learning to canoe, wind surf... and other activities available from Elie Water Sports.  
 
Back at Ivy, after lunch I did some work on the rhone, and ‘engineered’ the brackets needed to level it off:   I should finish the repair work tomorrow and begin painting the
Elie beach
front wall .... er.. .. sometime soon.    That reminds me I’d better find out what I already have in the way of paint, and what I need.   I’ll probably get a fright when I find out the cost of paint nowadays.

Tomorrow might be the start of ‘Summer’.....    it is forecast to be warm and dry .... hot even!.... and, it could be better on Thursday.... unless we end up with an onshore breeze.


Photographs : Top – ‘E’ Type Jaguar, Middle – ESMS pupils enjoying a wind surfing lesson, and Bottom – Elie beach.

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