19th
November 2018 (Monday)
.... 07.30 A light easterly breeze has
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| The Inverness train coming in to Markinch Station. |
brought in a lot of cloud from the North
Sea .... we have a grey, and not very exciting looking morning. Not a morning for pottering about on the
beach waiting for the sun to rise... at 07.58.
The sun is above the horizon for exactly 8 hours today... it sets at 15.58. Hopefully we should get a few ‘sunny spells’
over the eight hours.
18.00 My first mission this morning (actually it
was my only ‘mission’, today hasn’t been a day for ‘missions’) was taking Jim and Myra to Markinch Station to
get the Inverness train; they are going
to Blair Atholl for a short break. I
expected the Inverness train to be a long one;
it consisted of three cars ... (or coaches)... ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’. Normally there would have been another 3 coaches,
‘D’, ‘E’ and ‘F’, but this must be a quiet day, and they weren’t needed. Which was a bit unfortunate for Myra and Jim
cos’ their seats were on coach ‘F’. However
there appeared to be
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| Jim (and Myra) on the train. |
plenty of empty seats.
I
had intended taking a few photographs of Markinch but it was not the kind of
day to do that; so I went to Sainsbury’s
and bought some Emergency Rations; and
had a coffee in the Cafe. On the way
home I ended up travelling behind a car doing 20 – 25 mph...... this was just
outside Upper Largo. I did think of
overtaking, but that is not a manoeuvre that I do very often, and the
opporchancity didn’t arise, so I bumbled along:
until we got to the temporary traffic
lights at Broomlees. They were at ‘Red’,
so I slowed down and stopped; but not my
pal (I looked on him as a friend by this time) who didn’t even see them, and
wandered straight through.... on ‘very
definitely red’. Luckily there wasn’t
anything coming the other way and he got away with it. I hope he got to where he wanted to be, unscathed,
... and enjoyed the rest of the day.
In the afternoon I thought I detected a pale
bit in the general greyness so I went down to the harbour ... in the car. The ‘sunny spell’.... unfortunately, there
was only one,
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| Distant 'sunny spell'. |
and it was at the other side on the Firth; brightening
up North Berwick. It didn’t make Elie
Harbour feel any warmer... so I didn’t linger, and went back to Ivy, where I moored
up the car, battened the hatches ... and switched the kettle ‘on’.
Tomorrows
weather forecast is not exciting; much
the same as today’s was, but windier and more chance of light rain, and fewer‘sunny spells’. It will be hard
to have 'fewer sunny spells' than we had today .... we didn’t have
any! We have ‘light rain’ just now. I saw this when making yet another cup o’ tea
a few minutes ago. I’m thinkin’ that
tomorrow morning might be a good morning for this boy to have a sleep in.
