Pittenweem swimming pool....
20th September 2017 (Wednesday) ... 13.30 When I went along to Elie for the papers
this morning, I got slightly diverted and ended up along at the old
Pittenweem swimming pool. Unfortunately we have a, mostly overcast,
with occasional spits and spots of rain, morning. I
must go back on a ‘bright and sunny’
morning... this will show up the different colours of the sandstone rocks etc
better. It is an interesting spot, and would have
been busy in the 1930’s , 40’s and 50’s.
20.30 My day has been spent pottering around Ivy... including baking a batch of wholemeal scones. Note to self .... I must remember to freeze some of them this time; rather than feed them to Blob and his pals.
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| Pittenweem tidal swimming pool. |
20.30 My day has been spent pottering around Ivy... including baking a batch of wholemeal scones. Note to self .... I must remember to freeze some of them this time; rather than feed them to Blob and his pals.
It
has been a grey and sometimes damp day;
not a day for bumbling about outside.
The ‘cold’ that I had last night didn’t come to anything.... I must have
been tired after
my wandering around Leven on Monday.
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| Solid infrastructure at Pittenweem swimming pool. |
Good
news re Pittenweem Swimming pool; the Community
Council are hoping to save it.... as a working pool if they can get funding. Certainly most of the solid infrastructure
is still there; the only problem as far
as I can see would be Health and Safety .... and the temperature of the water. Wet suits overcome the temperature ... modern
Health and Safety rules will be harder, and more expensive, to comply with. A seasonal Coffee Shop, and toilets, would be
very welcome I’m sure!
Transocean
Prospect hasn’t travelled very far in the past 24 hours; where she is in the English Channel is choc
a bloc with vessels of all kinds .... including working fishing boats. At this time ‘she’ is doing... they are
doing because I should include the tugs, after all, they are the motive
power.... 2.7 knots (3.1 mph) ... walking pace. They
should have more open water after they
reach the Bay of Biscay. They are off
Plymouth just now.
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| Steps cut into natural sandstone rock... Pittenweem pool. |
I
have an early start tomorrow morning... got to get the car along to Leven for
09.00. The weather forecast isn’t good
.... it will probably be raining when I’m walking down to Costa Coffee. If I am to get the car back tomorrow I’ll
potter around the Leven High Street shops ... something I haven’t done for a
while. That means I’ll be browsing the
books in the charity shops.
Photographs
: Top – Pittenweem tidal swimming pool, Middle – solid infrastructure, and
Bottom – steps cut into a natural sand stone rock.
