Coldest morning we've had in a long time .....
8th
December 2017 (Friday)
.... 09.30 Oh my word ....... although
not quite as windy as it was yesterday, it is really cold; the coldest I’ve felt it in a long
time, down
on the beach. I walked to Chapel
Green, and had a potter down in the shelter of the rocks to be out of the
wind. Apart from the temperature it’s a
bonnie morning. Must ‘go’ .... slight ‘flap
on’, ‘JB' is driving up on Sunday and the ‘Emergency Rations’ tin is empty. Not good... in this ‘Emergency Ration’ weather.
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| Sunrise from Chapel Green .... sheltering among the rocks! |
20.00 Wellllll .... this is the coldest spell of
weather we’ve had in a long time: it was bitterly cold when I was down on the
beach at sunset. My original intention
was to take the car to Woodhaven car park in the late afternoon, and walk round
the East Links.... I am glad that I didn’t do that.... it is more exposed out
there, than on the beach! The Ivy Cottages hatches were battened down by
16.00, and the heating turned up; it, the heating, has been at 19 all day and is
now at 22. Yes .... I am feeling comfortable.
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| .... Earlsferry beach on the way home. |
It
may have been cold all day, but I have been busy, mostly getting things done
for Christmas. I went to the PO in Anstruther
in the morning, then stopped at Harbour House for coffee on the way home....
and a chat to Myra, Brenda, Jim and Geoff.
The
‘Emergency Rations’ tin has been taken care of: I went to Sainsbury’s and did an ‘emergency’
shopping immediately after lunch. On
the way to Leven I drove through a snow flurry.... most of the real snow has been in the northern parts of Scotland, and the Midlands
of England; with traffic being
disrupted etc. Jackie and Iain
couldn’t get to their work in Aberdeen, but can work from home; and ... and this is the worst bit, Catriona
didn’t get to Ellon Academy!
Here, in our corner of Fife, we’re going to have low
temperatures for the next few days.
Here, in our corner of Fife, we’re going to have low
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| Elie - late afternoon walkers. |
I
met Nancy in Sainsbury’s and she was telling me that Douglas, her husband, is
in bed with a bug that’s doing the rounds just now. This is the time of year for “flu type
bugs”.... I’m hoping this cold spell, which is to be with us for the next few
days, might kill off the bugs.
The
weather forecast for tomorrow is ‘sunny, breezy and cold’; I think I’ll do a washing, and hope that it
dries in the few frost free hours we should have. I
should manage a decent walk in the morning .... it’s not supposed to be quite as windy as it
has been recently.
