20th
May 2018 (Sunday).....
08.00 Although the sky is mostly
overcast just
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| Looking south from the high point Balcarres. |
now, I can see a hole with
‘bloo’ sky showing through so it looks like being a ‘breezy and warm, with sunny spells’ kind of day.
I’m in the mood for getting in among trees today ..... I’ll probably go up to the Estate (Elie or
Balcarres) later in the afternoon. Right
now I’m in a working sort of mood: I’m hoping that wears off when I’m having
breakfast.
12.00 Even I find this hard to believe; so far
today, I have done a lot of work ... in the garden!
Everything is growing so fast just now that there is much needing
doing; and I’m the very boy to do
it. However I had a break at 09.55, and
switched on the ‘tele’. There was an Anglican
service, from St Martin’s in the Field Church (London), on BBC, which caught my
attention, and I watched it from start to finish (10.00 – 11.00). Watching a Church Service on the television
isn’t the same as going to an
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| Balcarres Estate. |
actual service:
there’s no one to have a chat with. However I did enjoy the service, and almost
felt like I’d been to ‘the kirk’.... apart from the aforementioned lack of
conversation. I’m orf out to the garden
again.
20.30 I went up to Balcarres (in the car) for a walk
about; I went up to the Lathallan junction
and came down through the estate on the auld main road. The farm boys were working in the fields,
but that was the only activity I saw.
I wanted photographs of the fresh greens of Spring.... and I did get a
few. I stopped at off the road ‘mooring
up’ places, and took a variety of pictures.
But, oh my word my knees and hips are stiff after the work I’ve been
doing. The ‘plan’ is to do more of the
same tomorrow. Tomorrow’s weather is
supposed to be more or less the same as today’s was .... only less windy and
therefore warmer. It will be a good
day for the garden. I might get the
bike out first thing, and go up through Elie Estate.
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| Balcarres. |
The
Very Rev Michael Curry, the Anglican Bishop from the USA lit up the Royal Wedding. Of all the official sections of the wedding
ceremony his was the best. He spoke
about ‘love’... and that is what weddings are all about. Some folk say that he ‘went on a bit’...
but he brought simple, down to earth, ‘love’
right to the fore. We should never
underestimate the importance, and power, of ‘Love’.
