First Swallows ....
12th
April 2016 (Tuesday) ..... Although there’s a brisk East wind this
morning, it didn’t feel cold when I was out;
having said that, I was wearing
my ‘polar bear’ jacket etc. and that keeps me warm. It’s a grey morning, and dry just now:
but there will most likely be rain/drizzle,
being blown in from the North Sea, at some point today. Having loads to occupy me in Ivy, I’ll stay
‘in’ for most of the day. I had a
good, long walk, this morning; the
beach, Chapel Green, golf course, then home by the beach.... which is a healthy
amount of exercise; ‘healthy’ i.e.,
apart from the East wind. Another
walk, in the evening, weather permitting, will keep me happy.
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| Elie Bay |
22.00 I didn’t take my evening walk, mostly
because the weather wasn’t amenable, but also .... Jimmy and Jim came along to Ivy for our weekly
‘boys’ night; drinking tea and talking
‘boys stuff’ ...... er, world affairs.
I forgot to mention this morning that; when I
got down to the beach, I saw my first Swallows of the year... this is “iggzactly”
a week after I saw my first House Martin.
Up until last year my first sightings of either, were around St George’s
Day, the 23rd, but last year both Swallows and House Martins were early .... as
were the Swifts: the Swifts are the
last to arrive .... and the first to leave.
For me the Swifts are the birds of Summer; regrettably they are only here for about
fourteen weeks.... and there’s fewer of them.
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| Sixth green |
Jimmy has got a phone with a ‘tracker’ app in
it so that he can check how far he is walking;
we have been trying it out on one
of his walks up towards Elie House.
With everything new it takes a wee bit time to get the ‘hang’ of, but
it’s doing the tracking job fine. It’s
getting to the tracking app, and switching it to ‘on’ mode that’s the tricky
bit.... but that will come. It wasn’t
the best afternoon for trying this out .... we had light rain at times..... but
both trackers (Jimmy’s and mine) came up with the same
distance so they’re
either, both right ... or both wrong!
Being as they work off the GPS they’re both right.
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| Elie Estate |
Tomorrow
is “Friendship Lunch” day in the Kirk Hall.
Jimmy and I are going along to the Windmill, immediately after ‘lunch’
to visit Chris, but I’ll er we’ll have plenty o’ time to chatter! The weather forecast for tomorrow is, ‘more
of the same’.... with the wind being easterly ,or north easterly it will feel
cold.
Photographs
: Top – Elie Bay, Middle – the sixth green flag, and, Bottom – even the trees around Elie are
especial; this one, on Elie Estate,
looks like it’s being ‘knitted’.... it could only happen at Elie! How did it get to this shape?
