Breezy with showers...

6th November 2022 (Sunday)    08.45 ....I wasn’t that confident that I


wouldn’t get caught in a shower on the beach this morning, and, although dry when I left Ivy it started to rain just as I got to the bottom of Cross Wynd.    The camera was ‘bagged’ and the rain wasn’t heavy so I went onto the beach and found a semi sheltered corner of the dunes.   The wind direction was the problem;  is was from the South.   Sunrise wasn’t until 07.29 so I spent a frustrating 10 minutes watching the sky change colour... unable to uncover the camera.   However, if nothing else, when I’m out with the camera I am ever hopeful.  Would you believe it, the shower moved away and the rain stopped two minutes before sunrise;  I would have dry spell until the next shower came..... 5 minutes later.    I am a happy boy.

17.30  With the 'Ferry Lodge' workmen being off for the weekend, I took the chance to cut down a couple of bushes at the end of the garden.  When doing this I discovered that a Gooseberry bush has much sharper thorns than a rose bush.  A job that I thought would take about five minutes, took about an hour by the time I’d cut the bush down then cut it into little bits, to go into the ‘broon bucket’.   A Buddleia bush got the same treatment in ‘nae time’;  no thorns to bother me there.


23.00    I’m typing this during the adverts on an episode of ‘Rebus’;  I like Rebus because it takes place Edinburgh and reminds me when I worked there.   Better ‘go’....the adverts will be finished.   That’s ‘Rebus’ finished.... now I can get on with this.   Not that there’s much to get on with ‘cos I haven’t done anything interesting.... just bit of gardening.   Oh one interesting thing;  I checked my OVO account and found that I am £829 in credit (both gas and electricity are on one bill now) and pay £214 per month.   That might come down once I send in the next meter reading on the 2nd December. I can’t say that I enjoy boosting the profits of BP and Shell investors but at least I know they don’t have to worry about their heating bills.   Actually....that disnae make me happy either!   The world is in a sad state.

Tomorrow I’m firing up the ‘crock’ pot with another batch o’ Scotch Broth for the freezer.

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