Opening of theBowling green at Elie .....
16th
April 2016 (Saturday) 09.00 .... after an early morning frost, we have, ‘wall
to wall’ blue sky this morning, .... a lovely day for walking, biking.....
or ‘working’. I’m
going to bike along to the Coffee Morning;
I’ll then come home
through the estate for a wee bit of exercise: the afternoon will be taken up with
bowling. Hey, this day has the
makings of a ‘play’ day for me: if
there’s any ‘work’ going to be done, it will have to be in the evening.
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| Elie Harbour |
20.30 I
never did get any ‘work’ done today; it
has been a ‘play’ day, and I have enjoyed it.
Having said that... I am feeling choked up with some kind o’ cold; this curbed my excitement a little .... but
not much! I’ll have a ‘Janice Toddie’
at bedtime, that will sort any cold germs out.
This will have been brought on by the cold weather, and wind direction, we’ve
had over the past week or so.
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| Elie Bowling Club |
We
had an excellent Coffee Morning, with loads o’ coffee/tea and goodies to
eat. A lot people put a lot of effort into
our Coffee Morning’s: happily their efforts are not in vain; they must have been pleased with the turnout today,
and the fact, that there must have been a good sum of money raised for the ‘Heart
Foundation’ charity. Jimmy went down
to the Sailing Club after the CM... I went home to Ivy to take a couple of Paracetemol,
and have lunch.
Most
of the afternoon was spent at the Bowling Club;
unfortunately I was too late to take part in a team, but I did practice
on my own. I’d say that I am quite
expert at setting the mat, and placing the ‘jack’.... not so good at the actual
bowling. I was playing with 00 size
bowls and I think they were
just too light for me; my main weakness was that I kept putting the
bowls beyond the ‘jack’. I’m not sure
about bowling this year .... I think I’ll need to have another ‘practice’
before I make up my mind. Before I
started to ‘play’ I set the ‘tracker’ going, and was surprised to find that I’d
walked ‘iggzactly’ one kilometre. I
didn’t stay for the cuppa; there were
too many bonnie clouds around so I went back to Ivy, had a cuppa, then went
down to the beach.
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| Kirstin delivering the first jack of the season |
We’ve
been very lucky today .... we never really got hit by one of the many heavy hail
showers that have been around most of the afternoon, though we did get a smattering
of hail a couple of times. Not enough
to stop the bowls.
There
were some bonnie clouds when I was down on the beach .... and some of them were
even daring to threaten the ‘Royal Burgh’.
However they passed over, heading for Berwick on Tweed and point south!
Tomorrow
is forecast to be much as today, bright and cold .... but the wind is going to
be Westerly. I’m not going to make a ‘plan’
for tomorrow... I’ll see how I feel in the morning.
Photographs
: Top – Elie Harbour this morning, Next – Elie Bowlers at the opening of their
green, Next – Christine send the first ‘jack’ of the season on its way, and,
Bottom – Elie Bay late in the afternoon.
