Overcast and windy...
12th
May 2020 (Tuesday) 06.30 .... The early morning sky is heavily
overcast and there’s a cold Northwest breeze .... but we should get sunny spells
later; which is when I will go for the
paper. No I need milk so I’ll take the
car and get milk and the paper now.
Slight ‘flap on’ now.
07.30 The sky is rapidly clearing from the
Northwest so the temperature should shoot up to about 11c (probably 7c in the wind) in ‘nae
time’; I might even get the bike out
about 11.00. After breakfast I plan to cut things down
in the garden. |
| The Terrace - Elie. |
17.00 There definitely is at least one God: I have 5 Soduko’s left to do in the book I
bought it the ‘Store’ in Ainster the week before the Coronavirus pandemic hit,
and I was wondering how I’d get a new Soduko book. I do the ones in the Scotsman but I like
having a book in the Hutte so I can do them anytime. When I got back from a run out on the bike
today I found a note from a delivery van driver telling me that there was a
‘parcel’ from Amazon behind the green
bin. This had me in a state of puzzlement (I like that bit); I hadn’t ordered any books! On opening this surprise parcel I found a
book of 400 (Hard) Soduko puzzles... which will see me through to the
end of
the pandemic....even if that does
stretch into 2021! The biggest puzzle
being.... ‘who organised surprise’? I
have a suspicion it might have originated in Somerset!
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| Elie and Earlsferry beaches. |
I
have had a busy day having done some gardening (whacked lumps oot o’ a bush
that was threatening to take over Earlsferry), went out on the bike and came
back to find the book from Amazon. Yes
I’ve had a happy day which included
conversations with; Patricia (passing with Dora, Myra (on the
phone and delivering goodies and book, Graham (Elie House), Lesley and Douglas on The Terrace (Elie) and
Margaret (Bowers) at the Breakwater. Conversation
socially is what I miss most. Today’s
conversations weren’t in a ‘social context’ but they certainly cheered me up.
We’ve
just had a prolonged and heavy shower of rain;
I’m glad that I went out on the bike earlier and not in the evening as I
had intended at one time today.
21.00 This has been an enjoyable day....in
spite of the cold wind. It has been a
day with plenty conversations in it, face to face (at two metres) and on the
phone in the evening; and Skype to ‘M’
in New Zealand.
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| Kinneuchar. |
Tomorrow
is forecast to be; ‘sunny intervals with
a moderate breeze and low chance of precipitation’.... and cold. After tomorrow the temperature is forecast
to start rising almost to ‘warm’ level.
My ‘plan’ for tomorrow is to whack lumps oot o’ some other bush in the
garden then rest; after I’ve been ‘roond
the villages on the bike.
