Bright, breezy and cauld ....

1st March 2023 (Wednesday)   “Happy St David’s Day” to all my friends in Wales;  you are allowed cake today!

10.00    It’s a bonnie, but cold, start to St David’s Day in the Royal Burgh;  there’s brisk


wind from the North so loads o’ wind-chill.    I might have a short walk once the temperature gets up to about 14C, in the meantime I’m havin’ a couple of slices of Melba toast for breakfast;  I’m not on a diet;  I’m trying to shake of the after effects of that bug I had.   Actually I’m feeling brighter this morning... and thinking better.   If the wind drops I might circle ‘The Ferry’ on the bike after lunch.

19.30   I had the urge to go somewhere in the afternoon.... but not on the bike ‘cos it was too windy and cold.     The place I ended up going to wasn’t the most exciting.... but I enjoyed the exercise I got walking the aisles of the ‘Store’ in Ainster.   I had a bit of retail therapy.   You can’t call shopping ‘retail therapy’ nowadays some of the prices are shocking: however needs must so shopping has to be done.

I decided to come home by the quieter ‘the back toad’ but even that isn’t therapeutic anymore;  even the back roads are busy....and there’s always someone in a hurry: ‘Quiet places’ are no longer ‘quiet places’.   I suppose it’s good that folk are coming to the East Neuk; but I’ll be glad when the light (and warm) mornings are with us, so that I can go out early on the bike.  That’s my time.


22.30   I’ve had a better day; in fact I feel ‘on the mend’ from whatever ‘winter bug’ I had.   The ‘plan’ is to lie low for another couple of days.  Having checked the weather forecast, Friday looks like being the best day for me to have a turn round the villages on the bike.   Tomorrow I intend doing ‘ousework; Michael and Janice are coming up at Easter time so I’ll make a start on their room.   The weather for tomorrow is going to be, more or less, much the same as todays.

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