27th
May 2016 (Friday)
... 10.00 We have ‘activity’ down at
the Harbour this morning .... we have
one yacht (Artemis) tied up at the buoy outside the harbour wall, and two
(Sundance and Radius) tied up at the pier... and the ‘Noreen’ has gone,
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| Elie this morning |
having sailed
at high tide. Although all that is
‘happening’ down there, it is not a day
for being out in Ivy garden, let along out on the Firth: it is wet, with ‘Scotch Mist’ being brought
in from the North Sea on a cold Southeast wind,.... in one word ‘dreich’. Not a day for sailing. Enjoyable sailing anyway; of course, it may brighten up later; right now it looks like it’s going to be
dreich for a while.
21.00 The weather has been a ‘let down’ today
right enough, though it did brighten enough in the afternoon, for me to get out
on the bike; up to the Boss’s Seat, then
along to Elie, and back home via Elie estate ..only a distance of 7.82kilometres (4.86 miles) but
I enjoyed it. When you get in among the Elie Estate trees it’s almost like the sun is shining, because of the
brightness of the green leaves. The
birds didn’t seem to be bothering about the grey weather... they were sing their
hearts oot. Like I do when I’m in the gallery, in the kirk!
This
is ‘Whit weekend’, which means that Sunday is the seventh Sunday after Easter,
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| Artemis at the deep water mooring buoy |
or Pentecost, the ‘fiftieth day’ (49 so near enough) after Easter Sunday. It has traditionally been a holiday since
medieval times; in fact the whole Whit
Week is regarded as a week of
celebrating. I might as well do the ‘holiday thing’ next
week, and treat is as an extension of the Beltane celebrations of the beginning
of summer.... which started on the 1st May.
This is roughly halfway between the Spring equinox and the Summer
solstice... the first of May i.e.. Yes
I shall celebrate the coming of Summer this week. I’ll being by hibernating for the weekend,
because the villages are busy. When
you think of it the ‘pagans’ celebrated the important things, like the changing
seasons, and the important ‘sun’ dates such as equinoxes and solstices.... the
Winter Solstice being the most important ‘sun’ date; the beginning of a new cycle of growing
things! The Summer Solstice is of
course the opposite. Jings I’d make a good
‘Pagan’. I wonder if Pagan’s regarded
singing an important part of celebrating?
The
weather forecast for tomorrow? Wellll
... it is forecast to start much like today
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| Part of the Elie estate road |
did, but the clouds is to break up,
and give us ‘sunny spells, in the afternoon... though that may take longer to happen
on the East Coast... that means Crail!
Photographs
: Top – Elie Harbour early this morning, Middle – local yacht “Artemis” at the deep
water mooring buoy, and Bottom – another part of the Elie estate road.
