Dull and wet morning .....
11th
June 2016 (Saturday)
..... 09.00 I’m having a ‘bad hair day’.... it’s been raining overnight, .... if I had a
cat I’d probably have tripped over it by now:
Not an encouraging start to the morning! Oh ... and the wind is from the east!
It’s not a bonnie looking day as far as the
weather goes (the mirror isnae that bonnie either), and the weather forecast
for tomorrow isn’t “iggzactly” encouraging.... grey and wet. It looks like an ironing/computer sort of weekend; that said, it isn’t actually raining at this
moment in time so I’ll get the bike .... oh no I left it, the bike,
out last
night, so the seat will be wet ..... I’ll dry the seat, then get the bike out,
and do a quick orbit of the village. You
wouldn’t think I’d be in a cavorting kind of mood .... but, somehow, I am.
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| This morning at Earlsferry |
21.00 Well would you believe it .... the
overnight rain was a blessing in disguise:
it got rid of all the pollen, and other kinds of stuff in the air, ....leaving
the atmosphere clean. I went right off the idea of biking and went for
a walk instead, being able to ‘stride out’ (in between photograph stops), with
zero allergy reactions. It was
raining, lightly, all the time I was
out, but it was pleasant enough.... though cold.
Jimmy
arrived not long after I got back, for a cuppa; he had been up to the turning point at
Chapel Green (in the car), and had managed to walk as far as “Maggie’s Seat”; which wasn’t bad on a cold morning like
this, and he thought the effort was well worth a cuppa! I had the “Trooping of the Colour” ‘on’ at
the time so watched
that to the end. I
remember a Queen’s Birthday Parade, in Aldershot in 1958; it was a bright sunny day, and Field
Marshall Montgomery was going to take the salute. When we got to the parade ground, the
Sergeant handed my mate, Brian, and I, a yellow duster each, and were told to
go along the lines of soldiers, ‘stood staunin’ there, and check their boots; their highly polished boots. After we’d done this,.... and there was a lot of them, soldiers i.e.,
each wearing two boots so it took a wee while ... we were told to disappear to
the NAAFI! And
that was Brian and Albert’s, one and only “Queens Birthday Parade”. We never saw ‘Monty’.
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| The old fashioned look |
In
the afternoon ... we’re back to the present day .... I went out for an exercise
‘run’ on the bike up through Elie estate.
It was windier, and therefore colder by this time... and still raining
lightly, so it was a quick trip, with no diversions... oh yes there was... I
caught up with two girls out for a walk, and had to use the bell on Maggie’s
bike; the first time on Elie estate.
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| Elie this afternoon |
It’s
cold and damp looking tonight, and the weather forecast for tomorrow is not
good; grey and wet mostly. ‘M’ is going to the Crail Food Festival
tomorrow with her sisters, so I’m hoping the forecasters have got it wrong....
actually they may have been going there today. Not the forecasters... Margaret and her
sisters!
Photographs
: Top – the beach this morning (taken from the shelter of a beach hut), Middle –
playing with Photoshop ... it was that kind of day, and Bottom – Elie Harbour
this afternoon.
