Elie Scarecrow weekend, Day 1 ......
30th
April 2016 (Saturday)
....09.00 We have a cracker o’ a
mornin’, after a early morning frost;
wall to wall blue sky, with hardly any wind.... a perfect morning/day
(hopefully) for browsing the “Elie Scarecrows’. I am going out with
Jim and “SD” for bit
of walking exercise: I’ll start ‘ticking
orf ’ the ‘Scarecrows’ after lunch.
 |
| John and Linda |
21.30 There’s one thing you can definitely say
aboot Scotland’s weather; it can
surprise! Today has been beautiful...
and yesterday morning we woke up to snow on Largo Law etc. This turned out to be a perfect day to
saunter around the villages, map in hand, admiring the Elie Scarecrows .....
and plenty folk did just that; the
villages were choc-a-bloc, with ‘Scarecrow aficionados’; “aficionados”.. hey that’s a big word,
where did that come from? I was lucky
enough to ‘near enough’ bump into Linda and John, who had walked over from,
Shell Bay... now Elie Caravan Park. I
w
ent out in the afternoon, probably the busiest time, and found it just too
busy for me; I had hoped to ‘bump’ into
John and Linda again but there were just so many folks around I never did see
them: however the lure of my “Hutte
Finest” will bring them back I’m sure. I only ‘got’ half the scarecrows today...
and the weather forecast for tomorrow is not “iggzactly” the best; it’s supposed to be wet in the morning!
 |
| The Cat and Hat |
I
managed to find time to go down to the harbour when I was ‘out’ and got some
beautiful ‘cloud’ photos. That
probably explains why I only managed to get half the scarecrows
photographed. I waited out on the
pier to see if Jimmy would turn up at the Sailing Club, but I’d for Ivy, and a
well deserved cuppa, by the time he did turn up at the ‘Club’. I don’t know how we missed each
other. Right enough the villages were
busy, with folks on foot, and in vehicles.
I was on my bike, which, as I found out, was a fairly nerve stressing
way to travel today!
First
thing this morning Jim and I took “SD” up to North Lodge, Balcarres, for his
morning walk; yesterday Balcarres was
covered in snow, this morning that had gone, and, though the Den Burn was more like
a river than a burn, in places, the roads were more or less dry. We met Myra in the Harbour House Coffee shop
when we got back to Elie, for a well earned cuppa. Even at that time in the morning Harbour
House was busy.
 |
| Maw Broon |
What
is my ‘plan’ for tomorrow morning? Well,
I suppose it all depends on what the weather is doing in the morning....if it’s
cloudy and dry, I’ll go out on the bike and get the remainder of the
scarecrows: if it’s raining I’ll eat
nuts and hibernate!
Photographs
: Top – John and Linda, (silly me I had the sun immediately behind me ... and
therefore in Linda’s eyes), Next – “The Cat and Hat”, Bottom – “Maw Broon”.
