Crackin' mornin' ....

21st May 2022 (Saturday)    07.30 ....I’m feeling frolicsome and we have a


beautiful morning for frolicking: It’s warm and sunny with a brisk breeze from the southwest..... so... it’s a good day for doing my measuring at Kinneuchar;   and visiting Shona.   I’m having a cuppa before getting the bike oot and bumbling round the villages.   I’m going to have another cuppa.    

11.00    It is a cracker o’ a mornin’ and I have been out enjoying it.   I will go up to Kinneuchar after morrrrrning coffee (and after the bike battery is charged).   I bought a couple of scones to take up to Shona, though I have still to get the paper (didn’t have room in the bag after I’d been to the baker.   I’m going to check the progress with the battery charging.... and have a cuppa and a goodie (not one of Shona’s scones).


19.38  The bike battery wasn’t fully charged until lunch time and, by that time the sky clouded had over so I never went to Kinneuchar.    What I did do was research medieval churches.   I bought ‘How to Read a Church by Richard Taylor, an excellent book that covers the whole subject in depth, when Jim and I were part of a team recording kirks for ‘Scotland’s Churches’ a few years ago.   So the day wasn’t wasted;   and I have a fully charged bike for tomorrow morning.  

Even though it was cloudier it has been a nice day, though slightly cooler than it was this morning.   I’ll going out first thing tomorrow morning;  it seems that’s the best time of day for me.  Fatigue sets in after lunch.

21.30    Funnily enough I’ve enjoyed today even though I haven’t been physically active;  research is always interesting.  I am working from sketches, done in 1818 by Mr J Sime, of the kirk that replaced the pre reformation one; adapting what remained of the auld kirk and  erecting a kirk to suit the new rules of the Protestant religion.  To that end I am going to come up with a ground plan, based on Mr Sime’s sketches, and ground plan, of the kirk they built; 


and a plan of what I think the  pre reformation kirk would have looked like.  All local pre Reformation kirks were all based on a standard internal ‘plan’....with individual local differences according to how rich the congregation was.   It was skilled medieval masons that built the arches we see at Kinneuchar.  

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