Nice morning ....
1st
June 2018 (Friday)
.... Hmmmmm ... there’s yellow warning
of
thunderstorms for Fife today and tomorrow;
well, if we catch one we won’t have to bother about watering the garden. At the moment we have a warm, sunny morning,
with little sign of rain, so I’m going out on the bike after this update. I am
feeling slightly friskier today; after a
long night’s sleep. I didn’t get out
of my 'Royal Burrow' until 08.15!
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| Elie. |
19.00 ‘The Boy’ is shattered tonight, after a
busy day. In the morning I went to the
‘Mackie Housing’ complex to visit George in his new residence. The Mackie Housing, so named because Isaac
Mackie, in his Will, left a large amount of money to the village of Earlsferry,
and to Kilconquhar Church. Isaac
Mackie was born in Earlsferry on the 23 September 1880, emigrated to the USA in
1901, and became the golf professional at Fox Hill Golf Club on Staten Island. He died on the 22nd June 1963 in Scotch
Plains, New Jersey. Anyway that is all in the past, and the
complex that bears his name, is ‘run’ by a Housing
Association with no
connection to Earlsferry.
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| The ladder. I couldn't do a selfie! |
George
has a neat, apartment; ideal for a
retired single person, with access to a bonnie garden area. We had a cuppa, and put the world to rights
... again, before I bumbled my way along South Street, then up School Wynd to the
‘Paper Shop’.
Back
at Ivy I felt in a mood to do some work, and the job I was thinking of was
cleaning out the rhones. I haven’t
been on an extension ladder for a couple of years, so I got the bottom half of
the ladder out and had a trial climb up it.
I felt confident so got the other half of the ladder, and, .... cleaned
out the rhones. After the spell of dry
weather it was the perfect conditions for rhone cleaning. I was surprised at how easily I bumbled up
and down the ladder; welllll maybe not ‘easily’,
but I managed! The job was done and
dusted before lunch. Since then I have
pottered around the greenhouse and the garden. However stiffness has set in, and I am
looking forward to bed and a good hour reading my book.
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| Taken just as the rain began this afternoon. |
We
caught the edge of a heavy shower of thunder about 16.15; the actual thunder was taking place at North
Berwick. You can watch the lightning strikes as they
happen on ‘Live Lightning’: anywhere on
the planet. The rain never came to
much; what the garden needs, is a good
old ‘thunder plout’.
Nae
plan for tomorrow, but the weather forecast is for more of what we had
today; including the yellow warning for
possible thunder showers later in the afternoon.
