Damp ....

1st April 2023 (Saturday)     08.45 .... Hmmmm..... we have a dull and wet


start to April....and that is not an April Fool’s day joke: ‘Drizzle with a moderate breeze off the North Sea’ is the forecast .... and drizzle with a moderate breeze off the North Sea we have.   It is not a pretty start to the month;  and it’s not just the weather....the mirror didnae look that bonnie either. But “hey ho,”... I’m looking forward to sunny spells and April showers later;  starting today.  Must go...’slight flaparoonie on’;  I need an ‘early morrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrning coffee’.  

13.00    My word it’s cauld oot today;  ‘the boy’ (that’s me) won’t be going anywhere  far from the kettle today.  So far I have done some (long overdue) catching up with Les and Ian in OZ.   It’s a perfect day for doing computer stuff;  and even ‘ousework!    After another visit to the kettle I will contemplate ‘ousework and the benefits derived from doing some.   The ‘Slight Flaparoonie State’ remains active.


20.00    After a lengt... er ... brief period of contemplation I ironed two big sheets and a downie cover:  I am not keen on ironing big items but I feel guilty (when I visit Maggie’s seat) if I don’t: so big things get a perfunctory ironing, to ease my conscience mostly.   My whole day has been spent inside Ivy... apart from a few short visits to see what was happening, out in the cold damp world at the front gate.   Scott and Alistair were working, at Balvonie; Andy and Chris going to the golf course.... and folk out walking.   I have never like winds from the East direction... especially damp ones like we had today.   Nothing good ever came from the East;  except the F3 breeze that blew Rum Rig, with Jimmy and me aboard, home from the May one afternoon after a day on the Firth. 

22.00    We can look forward to ....15 seconds pause.... ‘sunny intervals with a gentle


breeze tomorrow’:  I might go further than the front gate.  I have a ‘plan of action’ in place for tomorrow, but there’s a good chance that the ‘Flaparoonie State’ might be raised to Yellow!  The main effort will be getting the downie intae the cover... that usually involves a bit o’ crawlin’ aboot inside the cover.  However I am going to use claes pegs so that I know where the downie corners;  that should eliminate the need to crawl intae the cover.  It’s chocolate time.

Today's photographs were not taken today!

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