Dour looking sky ... but a good forecast ...

29th September 2017 (Friday) ... 09.30    It’s overcast and dry this morning... however, we have an improving forecast;  “sunny spells”, though a few
Macduffs cave, Earlsferry.
showers could creep in, later the afternoon.     Sunday is the bad day for this weekend.   

There was a ‘big flap on’ before I could have my breakfast this morning!    I had to go up to the ‘Paper Shop’ for milk (and a paper);  need milk to soften up the ‘grass’; (Shredded Wheat).    Breakfast over, I will go for a walk, .... with a contented ‘puku’.
20.00     I never did get out for a walk in the morning;   I ended up doing ‘ousewifely stuff instead.    ‘Ousewifely stuff’ included a washing (had to wash the trousers that got covered in mud yesterday, plus other stuff to make a load), doing the bathroom/kitchen and lobby floors, and feeding ‘Blob’.   Jimmy came in after his morning walks... he was tired, and in need of a cuppa.

The Toft, Elie ... from the Chapel Ness rocks.
With it being such a bonnie day I made a flask of coffee and biked up to Chapel green to have a ‘play’ down on the rocks;   it’s interesting seeing how things looks from different viewpoints.    Although it wasn’t that windy when I arrived at Chapel Green, there was a brisk wind by the time I sat down to have coffee.    Luckily I’d made a flask of Jimmy’s lemon tea, just in case he came home from Anstruther early, ‘cos he arrived just as I made my way up from the rocks.

The villages seem to be busy this weekend;  with a lot of cars appearing from mid afternoon onwards.   The villages are popular destinations;  with holiday makers taking a holiday home for a week or two, more or less at any time of the year.  This means there is a plentiful, and steady, supply of people to talk to!
Tomorrow is forecast to be the best day of the weekend as far as the weather goes;
The Dome Park from the Chapel rocks.
   Sunday is going to be wet and windy.

Tugs, AH Varazze and Atlantic Kestrel, with Transocean Prospect in tow, are getting close to the Strait of Gibraltar... they should be through it by midday tomorrow.   At the moment they are poodling along at 2.9 knots... just over three mph... walking pace.    The Strait is, understandably, very congested.


Photographs : Top – Macduffs cave Middle – Elie from the Chapel Ness rocks, and Bottom – Dome Park from the Trinq rocks at Chapel Green.

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