Bright and breezy (so is the weather) ....

11th March 2021 (Thursday)     09.00 .... It’s a bonnie morning but there’s a

Elie Harbour beach.

cauld, frisky wind from the Northwest;  not a morning for this boy going out on the bike .... unless the temperature rises.   I am feeling my auld frolicsome self again;  I might wrap up and have a walk to the beach after morning coffee.    There will be shelter from the wind in the lee of the dunes.   I won’t be going to the Pony Field today!   The wind is forecast to freshen in the afternoon so it’s going to be cool all day.

I went for the paper in the car and had a turn round the harbour but didn’t stop;   but I did stop at the Ship Inn beer garden, to get a few photos of the seaweed on the beach.   There’s a lot of it.

15.00    It’s a bonnie afternoon, albeit windy.   The bike has never been out... and neither have I  (since I went for the paper)when I think of it.    I did some ‘ooverin’ and dustin, topped the windscreen washer in the car and then watched ‘Run Silent Run deep’.    I am having a before taking a walk to the beach for a breath of fresh air:  it’s stuffy in a submarine.

20.30     With the showers being too frequent I didn’t go to the beach but took the car for a run to the harbour then up to Kinneuchar.   I have been feeling cauld all day but kite surfers were out on Elie Bay enjoying the wind and water.    Although I enjoyed watching


them, they did not make me feel any warmer.   The speed they move across the water and waves, really surprises me; it’s not as if the water is flat calm..... because, they need a frisky wind.   Mind you they do have the proper togs so they won’t feel cold.

Kinneuchar was quieter and a shower of rain had just passed over so the street was wet.... the first time I have photographed Kinneuchar Main Street after rain.     It was cauld up at Kinneuchar too and I was glad to get back to Ivy and get the kettle on.

It’s going to be breezy tomorrow with fewer showers;   in fact I am going to wash the towels, ‘cos it looks like it’s going to be a drying day.   It will be cold again.    I think I’ll spend most of the day around Ivy Cottage doing some tidying up around the garden....


and Soduko’s in the Hutte. 


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