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Overcast and damp ....

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8th November 2025 (Saturday)      09.00 .... We have a damp morning, with mist coming in from the North sea on a light SE breeze;  not a bonnie morning;  but it's warm, and could brighten up later.   If it does, I  might get 'The Buggy' out;  as long as it's not actually raining.    I'm going to have an early morning coffee.   Kirsty is picking me up at 10.00 and we're going to see her new house up in Elie. 13.30    I've had a browse round Kirsty's new house;  one of her neighbours is Maurice, Maggie's cousin, whom I haven't seen for a good number of years.  It's a roomy house (it needs a name) with plenty off street parking,, and a huge garden.    The 'Team' will have to do some stripping of old wallpaper;  then again 'The Team' might have too many tea breaks to be of much use.   I used to have a steam stripper which would be invaluable for that wallpaper stripping job.  ...
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Bonnie Autumn morning ....

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7th November 2025 (Friday)      09.40 ....  We have a lovely, sunny and warm, 'Autumnal  mists' kind of morning ;  absolutely gorgeous.     I've been busy hanging out a washing but there isn't much of a drying breeze just now, so I don't think it will dry very fast;  unless the wind freshens.    I'll have another cuppa before going up to Elie to pick up my prescription.... and a paper!   Might even go to the harbour! 15.15    My word .... this has been a really gorgeous ' Indian Summer' like day.... and I have enjoyed it.  As planned Im went to Elie to get a paper and pick up my prescription.   Of course, with it being a bonnie day I went down to the harbour. and enjoyed myself with the camera.      Steve was there sorting out one of the yachts.   I enjoyed chatting about the boats:  and he was saying that the yachts active on the water  last summer and he t...
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Cloudy ....

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6th November 2025 (Thursday)       09.30 .... It's cloudy this morning, and warm for this time  of year.    There has been rain overnight, so everything is wet.   However the sky has a more promising look than it did at any time yesterday;  we could have 'sunny spells' later.    I'm feeling brighter, and  ready to go to Leven.... just need another cuppa.  16.00    I'd say that we've had a nice day for the time of year.   In the middle of the day the sun was shining at Methil and it was warm.    15.6C  at Ivy Cottage).    I enjoyed my trip to Leven and Methil;  the first time in nearly 5 weeks.    As ever nowadays the roads were busy, with hardly any road works to bother about.  There was one set of temporary traffic lights in, Lower Methil, but I could have missed them had I taken the other road.   Which I did on the way home. 19.15  ...
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Overcast and damp ....

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5th November 2025 (Wednesday)     10.00 .... The weather is not of the most cheerful kind just Strange looking spider. now;  we have an overcast sky, with light rain now and again.   However the Fife weather cams have promising signs, but none are showing  actual 'sunny spells';   however we might be lucky!    At the moment it looks like 'ousework, and computer for me today.   I'm not that keen on the 'ousework bit! 19.30    I've been busy on the computer (on and off) most of the afternoon.   The weather has been of the damp kind most of the day;  we didn't have any sunny spells, so I didn't go out in the car.  Today's photies are from the archive. I see on the News that the Supreme Court of the USA is questioning the use of tariffs by President Trump.    The capitalist world has to thank a Fife man, Adam Smith , from Kirkcaldy; author of   'The 'Wealth of Nations' ; the...
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Balmy and overcast ....

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4th November 2025 (Tuesday)     10.15 ..... I decided to have a walk up to the phone  box, and contemplating doing the 'Rotten Row' walk but it began to rain.   I took a few photies then scampered(?) home.   I think the rain should clear away to give us 'sunny spells' by midday.    There's no wind and it's warm so we could end up with a nice afternoon.    The Fife Weather cams show a clearing sky to the West of Lochgelly. 18.45    It stopped raining around midday, and we had a nice afternoon.    It was good to see the sun after what had been a wet morning. I did a few chores around Ivy when it was raining;  including hooverin' up my tae nail clippins.    By this time I was ready for lunch.   It was a lite bite lunch because I was looking forward to sausages and mash for dinner.    The 'after lunch siesta' lasted for 45 minutes.   I was well ready for a warm cuppa...
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Light rain .....

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3rd November 2025   (Monday)     09.30 ....  we have light rain with the chance of sunny spells just now;  but the light rain is to be more prolonged in the afternoon.   That means any sunny spells in the after noon will be short ones.    It's much warmer this morning;  13.4C when I checked the thermometer half an an hour ago.     19.15    As you can see from today's photies I've been 'out and about;  just to Elie, then home by way of Kinneuchar.   Oh... and I went down to the harbour;  the first time I've been down there for a number of weeks. The bots have been 'craned out' but I knew I'd miss that because i was 'under the weather. I met Rosie up in Elie and had a good catch up chat about History Society stuff.   It's the History Society coffee morning on Wednesday at the Pavilion:   I might go to that, but it depends on how I'm feeling.   This morning...
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Nice morning .....

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2nd November 2025 (Sunday)      11.00 .... It's a beautiful morrrrrrrning;  I actually louped into the car and went for the paper .   Marcia and Irene came into the 'Paper Shop' ;  they were going to the church Service in Elie..    The last time I was at the kirk was in 2019 (pre COVID).    I thought about it, after the girls mentioned it, but noticed that it was midday (kirk clock)  when I got to the car, so I was too late.   That is my excuse anyway.   As a matter of fact, the Elie kirk clock stopped, about the same time that I stopped going to the kirk).... and was eventually set to midday.    12.15     The main 'News' today is about innocent  passengers, travelling on an LNER train, being attacked, by two, 'British Nationals' with knives, near Huntington, in Cambridgeshire.   Apparently it isn't a 'terrorist' attack;  but it must have been terrifying for thos...
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