Kirk day ....
5th
June 2016 (Sunday) ... 08.30 After the initial ‘overcast and cool’
start to the day, I’m sure we shall have ‘warm and sunny’ by lunch time....
with an
onshore, easterly, summertime breeze.
I remember when I biked along to the Craw’s, the easterly winds, were
with us until near enough the end of June.... in my favour coming home; but this was only for a couple of months in
the year, in those days. Most of the
time the wind would be westerly, and hard work; but you don’t get fit biking with the
wind. That said I once biked from the Craw’s Nest
to Elie in 15 minutes... in an easterly gale!
I was fit in those days,.... we both were, because Maggie and I did a
lot of biking.
 |
| Kilconquhar Church |
This reminds me ..... I’m biking up to
Kinneuchar to the kirk this morning .... sort of retracing the steps of Maggie’s
forbears, who were members of Kilconquhar Church: E
arlsferry was in Kilconquhar Parish until
1891, and most Ferry folk continued to walk, or bike up to Kinneuchar rather
than join Elie. Changed days of course
now, and we (Maggie and me) ‘transferred’ to Elie around 1990; though Maggie always went ‘in’ via the
Earlsferry door (the West one) and would definitely never sit in ‘my’ gallery
.... that’s the Elie end of the kirk. I sit in the East (‘my’) gallery because I’m
facing ‘The Royal Burgh’.... it’s a sort of ‘Mecca’ thing.
 |
| Small part of our beach |
22.00 We’re coming to the end of another lovely
day, though it did take the sun longer to get rid of the clouds.... not until round
about 13.30 did we have a hazy, blue sky.
This is a nice spell of weather we’re having, with the only ‘fly in the
ointment’ being the onshore easterly breeze/wind that gets up in the afternoon. However I can
put up with that ... though I
still don’t like it! The East wind i.e.
 |
| Bigger part of our beach |
The
kirk was busy this morning, and the Communion Service very enjoyable, apart
from me not being able to give the hymns laldie; mind you, only one of them was of the ‘laldie’
variety, so I didn’t miss much. With me
‘skipping’ the Congregational meeting, I
also, inadvertently, ‘skipped’ the coffee that was being served at the end of
it.
Jimmy
came along in the afternoon, needing to go to Leven to do a ‘Lidl ‘shopping’, so
that took in most of the later part of the afternoon. Immediately after lunch I stained another
garden chair: and removed the barricade
from the step that I repaired a couple of days ago.
Photographs
: Top – Kilconquhar kirk this morning, Middle – a tiny part of our beach, and Bottom
– the ‘Breakwater’ part of the beach this evening.
