Cooler air ....

 

19th November 2020 (Thursday)      10.00 .... It’s a beautiful morning:  yes

West Shore - Pittenweem.

... there is a cool wind from the Northwest, but it’s not that frisky so wrapped up you hardly notice it.   I’ve been for the paper, was halfway to the harbour when I realised that the motor coming into park, as I was crossing the road was Alistair... so I missed a chat.    Sorry about that Alistair ... I get excited when it’s a bonnie morrrrrning.

I ended up at Pittenweem Braes to catch the early morning sunlight hitting West Shore;  it’s a pity the tide was wrong but that will change in a few days.

I’m in a ‘working’ mood now .... after one of my own morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrning coffee’s.     Oh .... I have a washing to hang out before ‘mc’.

16.30     It has been a good day for ‘working’ in the garden.... and the ‘broon bucket’ is full.    I pruned a lilac tree.    It is supposed to be a lilac tree but it has never flowered so I don’t really know what it is.   I’ll cut it further down tomorrow and contemplate what remains... and what to do with it.

West Shore from a different viewpoint.

I went up to Chapel Green (on the bike);  it was cold , but very pleasant when in the sun, and out of the wind.... the Chapel gable was perfect for shelter today.   One good thing came out of the wind;  the washing dried.... and will be ironed this evening.

When I was working, in the garden, I got round to thinking about this COVID-19 crisis and how it has affected me personally.    Not being able to go socialise by way of coffee mornings and coffee shops is what miss most, that and hugging.   Being in my own bubble has me feeling almost like I’m a hermit.... albeit a comfortable, plump and slightly overfed, happy (most of the time) hermit;  in touch with the world via modern technology.   When I think about it there will be lots of single bubble ‘hermits’, all over the world, and many of them will be stressed to the eyeballs.     How can someone, who have mobility problems and can't leave their own home, who can't have 'ordinary' visitors, be cheered up?   It’s a major dilemma!

Tomorrow I will purchase a ‘Morning Coffee’,  from ‘arbour ‘ouse.   Funny thing is that

Interesting sky off St Abbs Head.

I am becoming used to my bubble;  which is not always  empty.... Blob comes in regularly;  and I speak to him.   It’s a strange world we’re living in just now.... Blob is even beginning to answer me!    There’s talk of opening the country up for Christmas and New Year;  that will have the figures rocketing from mid January on.... but there is a glimmer of hope on the vaccine front.