Blustery shower(s) ....
30th
October 2018 (Tuesday)
....06.30 there’s a blustery shower
passing over us just now, so I’m confined to Ivy ... with a cuppa: the beach will still be there after the rain/sleet. The ‘plan’ was to wash the Aran jersey first thing, but I’m ‘all
of a dither’ now; I didn’t expect showers this early in the day.
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| Blustery showers all over the place this morning. |
08.00 There’s a brisk south-easterly breeze this
morning, so it is cool on the beach .... but enjoyable. There are showers all around us: and, would you believe it, I stopped
dithering and my Aran jersey is going though the washing machine! It looks like it'll have to hang over a ‘horse’
in the Hutte to dry.
13.30 I’ve been for the papers.... and really
relaxing morning coffee. We’ve had a morning of heavy showers, and,
for those worried about the Aran jersey.... it is now on a ‘horse in the Hutte. I am now going to bumble up to Colinsburgh to put
fuel in the car.
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| Balcarres Estate - just as it began to spit rain. |
18.30 As my habit when I fuel up the car at
Colinsburgh I have a run through Balcarres Estate stopping at various places to
get a few photographs. The showers
disrupted the ‘plan’ I had in mind so I didn’t get the photographs that I
wanted. Oh well .... there’s always
‘next time’. I also visited the
harbour and Chapel Green. The showers
have been a nuisance; in between them,
it has been lovely. More of the same is forecast for tomorrow,
though there could be a longer spell of rain later in the afternoon.
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| Elioe Harbour. |
Tomorrow
I take the car to Leven to get two tyres;
and something else that it needs.
I’m hoping to get the car back in time to go to the Colinsburgh ‘Lite
Lunch’ at 12.30. Tyres take ‘nae time’
but the ‘something else’ could take longer.
Oh .... it’s something to do with brakes. Getting the car done is my ‘plan’ for
tomorrow. And the Colinsburgh Lite
Lunch if I’m back in time.
22.30 I watched an interesting programme about
New Zealand on the tele this evening.
New Zealand is an absolutely beautiful country, but the arrival of
humans, and the introduction of foreign predators, has been catastrophic for
the native fauna. However there is hope for the native New
Zealand species: a very active
Conservation plan, that has brought some New Zealand birds, on the very brink
of extinction back from the cliff edge.
This is happening on remote islands that have been cleared of the predating
stoats, rats and cats etc. that we introduced.
Unfortunately this is too late for the Moa... and the others that have
been lost, but at last something is being done now to save endangered native
New Zealand fauna. Impressive.
