14th
May 2020 (Thursday) 06.30 .... I’m feeling ‘playful’ this
morning
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| Earlsferry from the Breakwater. |
and it looks like being a bonnie day for ‘going out to play’; there’s a brisk breeze from the West and it
is cold but not that sharp wintry feeling cold that we’ve had recently. Will
we ever be able to go ‘oot tae play’ again?.... the realisation that coffee mornings
and such gatherings won’t be the same is hard to come to terms with. According
to the WHO this virus is going to be around for years so I guess we will have
to adjust. Orf to get the bike out and
go for the paper.
08.30 Did I say that the wind didn’t have the
feel of winter about it?..... well you can cancel that! By the time I was back in Ivy the wind had
freshened and it was freezin’. I won’t be goin’ out until after lunchtime by
which time there should be warmth it the sun.
The villages are looking as they should be .....but it’s really cold at
the harbour. Thew ironing! That's a warm job for this morning; yes I will do the ironing after breakfast!
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| Clear view of the loch after tree felling operations. |
13.30 I
have done the ironing.... now I am going celebrate by going out for some
exercise . There’s still a brisk breeze
but it’s much warmer than it was first thing this morning. I have done other bits and pieces of ‘work’,
watched the ‘news’, had few cuppas ... now it’s ‘playtime’.
20.00
Well ... I did have a pleasant run
out on the bike in the afternoon; along
and through Elie to Balbuthie Loan, through Kinneuchar, then home by Elie
Estate. This is when the countryside
is looking at its best: fresh greens
everywhere, cattle with calves and sheep with lambs.... idyllic country scenes. Oh I got a surprise at the boathouse (Elie
Estate); two of the trees that I used to lean on, to steady the camera, are no longer there;
Stewart has been a busy boy.
Right enough the road was closed to through traffic yesterday due to
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| Peaceful country scene. |
‘tree
felling operations’. It has opened up
the view of the loch.... and given me three nice flat tree stumps to stand
on. Apart from three trees everything
else was where it should be.
We
have a bonnie evening; there’s still a
brisk breeze but not too cold now. I
don’t have a ‘plan’ for tomorrow.... I can’t go anywhere ‘different’ like Crail or Kinghorn:
but I might go to Balcarres if the weather is suitable.
