5th
June 2018 (Tuesday)
.... 08.00 Eureka .... what a difference
without fog
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| 'Polestar' leaving Elie Bay.... and Jim Kenyon on his yacht! |
and clouds! We have a ‘warm
and sunny’ this morning, .... and bright colours. I am
partial to this type of morning. There’s
a drying breeze so I’ll put on a washing:
it’s a ‘doing stuff’ day. I’ll
make up my mind what I want to do after I have breakfast. First thing will be to put on a washing,
then bumble along to Elie for the paper. I’m feeling playful this morning.... but no
.... I must do some work first.
22.00 I’m one tired bunny tonight: when I said “I must do some work first” I
didn’t think I’d actually do ‘work’.... but I did. I did a washing, washed the floors, and
pulled some weeds. And I’d been for a
walk out to the lighthouse before I did
the ‘work’. I was glad to get a visit
from George to break me out of work mode.
No wonder ‘The Boy’ is tired.
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| Elie Kirk tower. |
We
have had a lovely day; the only thing spoiling
it was the cool Easterly wind. It did
some good; it dried the washing. This kind of east wind is good for drying
things; including my delicate skin.
While
having a cuppa after lunch I ended up watching an episode of “Extreme Railways”; this one was about the Wampo Viaduct that the
Japanese Military built, using prisoners of war during WWII. It was strange watching this knowing that my
Uncle Lewis was one of the ‘slaves’ used on that railway. When the prisoners of war, those who were
lucky enough to survive, were liberated at the end of the war, they filled in a
form where they listed the camps they’d been at. Wampo was on Uncle Lewis’ list.... so he had ‘worked’
on that bit of the railway. I remember a painter that I worked with, who
was also a POW on the ‘Death Railway’ telling me about, what is now called ‘Wampo
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| Earlsferry. |
viaduct’. He
said that the British Engineer Officers said it couldn’t be done, but as Jock
put it .... “the Nips said it could be done, and we lost a lot of our boys in
the doing of it!” I felt sad.
I’ve
been checking the ‘Trinity Tribune’ Coffee Morning list and there is nothing ‘on’
tomorrow. The weather forecast is good
for tomorrow; warm and sunny, but with a
drying East wind. Got to drink plenty
water on those kind of days.
