21st
April 2019 (Sunday) ....
07.30 We have yet another nice
morning;
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| Around 60 people turned up for the Easter service at Elie Harbour. |
it is overcast just now, but warm/hot
sunny spells are forecast. There is a light breeze from the SW so it isn’t
cold,.... the garden thermometer is already at 9.5c. It feels like the afternoon could be another
hot one.
I’m
going down to the harbour for the Easter Service.... after a quick cuppa.
14.30 Oh my word.... it is cosy out there. I’ve had to come inside, it’s just too hot
to work.... or even sit in the Hutte.
The temperature is 22.5 just now.... and it won’t be much cooler down on
the beach. Most of the morning... in
fact all of it was spent either Easter services or eating. The service at the harbour was really
good.... and the air was warm, unlike last year when it was freezin’. It was well attended; the singing was excellent. The service lasted about 20 minutes. The sermon was about early morning time....
(something that I could relate to)..... and the happenings on Easter Sunday
morning. Being an ‘early morning person’
I enjoyed the harbour service. From
there we
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| 08.30 this morning.... and it was already warm. |
bumbled up to the Kirk Hall for breakfast served by Patricia and
Geoff, aided and abetted by multiple backroom assistants. Breakfast being a roll with scrambled egg
and bacon.... tea/ coffee..... and loads of friendly chat. From there I biked back to Ivy to change
into a light weight jersey, have another cuppa then biked back to the service
in Elie Kirk.
There
was an excellent congregation at the kirk service (loads of visitors) and the singing was once
again good on the lugs. I didn’t
contribute any decibels .... I am a good mimic.... and can flap my lips in time
to any tune. But my o’ my why did Easter
have to happen over a long weekend?
The Minister was a good speaker, and an also singer, but she gave us the
Easter story, as it happened on each day.... Friday, Saturday, (that was a long
day) and Sunday. We, the congregation
were all a bit restive, by the end of the 33 minutes long sermon; and there was the collection and another hymn
after that: the total length of the service
being just over an hour and a quarter.
Monday must have been added on to give the punters a rest day! Apart from the length of the Easter Story
sermon, the itself service was good. The Easter Story was well done right
enough, but too detailed (and therefore long) for a kirk service .... at least that
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was what I left the kirk
thinking. I didn’t bother with the lunch as I wanted
to get back home and enjoy the sunshine.
The only thing being that right now I am inside Ivy Cottage; so I am not ‘enjoying’ the sunshine.... but I
was until it became too hot out in the
garden.
21.30 Wellll it has been one cracker of a day; the thermometer reached 23c in the middle of
the afternoon: a perfect day for me resting, in the Hutte and
drinking numerous mugs o’ tea..... it was too hot to do very much else.
Monday
is forecast to be another warm/hot day, but the wind, though light, is going to
be from the SSE backing SE so it will feel cooler on the beach. That said..... it will still be a bonnie
day. I’m going out early, then spend the
remainder of my ‘day’ working around Ivy.
