Breezy with showers ....

30th July 2023 (Sunday)      07.30 .... After some overnight rain the sky is

West Wemyss.

beginning to break up; but we are getting heavy showers just now.  we should have ‘sunny spells’ by midday.....the weather forecast is ‘light showers with a moderate breeze’. ... hopefully, a bonnie albeit breezy, afternoon ahead.     I’m having a quiet day; I’ll nip along to Methil and have morrrning coffee with Alice, then work in the afternoon.

08.30   The weather has deteriorated to ‘heavy showers with not much of a gap between the showers’ ... so it’s wet and windy at the moment.  I’m still looking for sunny spells in the afternoon.

18.15    As mentioned above I ‘nipped’ along to Methil to have morrrrrning coffee with Alice.  When having our morning cuppa I suggested going to the former Buckhaven Harbour site for a potter around; and that is what we did.   On the way, to the harbour, (what’s left of it) we stopped at Eddy’s, a new (‘Food Station) shop, that opened in Buckhaven’ a few weeks ago.   It’s much bigger than the frontage suggests.... and carries a good stock: a really good old fashioned ‘Corner Shop’.   I should mention that the sun was shining by this time!

Alice on the remains of the East pier.

We eventually reached the ‘harbour’ and had a good browse around;  it was windy but not a cold wind.   At one time Buckhaven had the second biggest herring fishing fleet in Scotland;  but all that remains now are a few bits of the East and West piers.... the inner harbour having been filled in and the old fishing village demolished.   Boards fixed onto the East Pier wall, and on the filled in harbour, show how the old Buckhaven was in its heyday.   The old photographs show a fishing village that looked very much like Crail.

Back at HQ Alice didn’t have to say very much to talk me into staying for lunch;  and we enjoyed roast chicken thighs with all the trimmings... a very companionable lunch it was too. Food is definitely more enjoyable when taken in company.  Although ‘counting calories’ we had a sweet;  mango slices on a stick!   The stick had ‘nae calories’ in it.

I left Alice to get ready for her afternoon visitors, Theresa and Sandy, and was back in Ivy by 13.30 and asleep, with a cuppa on the table, in ‘nae time’.  I am now ready to ‘work’.