28th
June 2018 (Thursday)
.... 09.30 Oh my word .... this boy is
an excited
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| Kincraig cliffs - Earlsferry. |
boy this morning. First of
all we have a gorgeous morning; which
was made even brighter when I met three blonde ladies out for their early
morning stroll. I might be ‘in love’!
You
might think that meeting a trio girls out walking was enough ‘excitement’ for one morning, but
another ‘excitement’ is caused by the heavy lifting vessel “Albatross” arriving
back in the Firth.... presumably to remove another of the redundant oil rigs in
Largo Bay. She (Albatross) has been
busy since she took the first rig out to Turkey to be scrapped. Since then she has been back and forth
across the Atlantic several times.
Right now she is moored up somewhere in the middle of the fog bank that
is lying on the south side of the Firth.
This has been an exciting morning;
I’ll need a coffee in Harbour
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| Fog bank along the south side of the Firth. |
House to bring me back down. ... even to
Planet Albert would do!
20.30 I never reached Harbour House for morning
coffee. On the way up to my shed to
get the bike, I decided to to cut back a lilac tree that has never ever
flowered in the 20 years it’s been in the garden. In fact at the end of autumn it is going to
be ‘very cut back’; I’m going to get rid
of it altogether, and that will eliminate the need to prune it every year. It has been the perfect day for lilac tree
pruning; and the ‘broon bucket’ (what
goes oot ra morra) is full; yes of lilac
tree cuttings.
This
has been the hottest day so far in Ivy garden .... we had 23c. It would be a wee
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| Elie harbour. |
bit cooler on the beach,
but not much because the haar didn’t come in this afternoon .... though the
wind was from the East. I got the
bike out to go to the ‘Drop in Cafe’ in the afternoon. We had strawberry tarts with our tea/coffee
.... really scrumptious. I left the ‘Cafe’
with loads o’ secrets but forgot them all by the time I was back at Ivy.
We
have a lovely evening .... warm in the evening sunshine. It is forecast to be cooler tomorrow....
probably because it is also forecast to be cloudier. I haven’t a ‘plan’ for tomorrow... I found
red gloss paint in the shed so I’ll make a start to the nameplate for the front
gate.
