'Leave' wins the referendum ...
24th
June 2016 (Friday)
.... the weather is ‘bright and sunny’ this morning....
a really bonnie morning for being ‘out and about’. I can’t do ‘out and
about’ until I get my
bike fixed; that is the priority ‘job’
for today.
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| Bonnie Morning |
Wellll
..... the result of the referendum is a bit of a surprise, but this is ‘democracy’,
at work, so we’ll have to get on with it.
One ‘pundit’, on the television this morning, said that we’re 10% worse
orf already, because of the fall in value of the pound against other
currencies. We have an interesting
few years ahead of us methinks..... especially with Scotland, Northern Ireland,
and London voting to ‘Remain’! Must go ‘slight flap on’ this morning ....
nothing do with the referendum result.... got a bike to fix.
22.00 Our beach looks the same today... so the referendum
has made nae difference to one of the most important places in Europe! It was lovely down there this morning,
peaceful and ... wellll.. just so Elie and
Earlsferry! After a cuppa I set about
fixing the bike. This time I disconnected
the wheel from the bike so that I could do a proper check of the tyre. I found another two thorns in the tyre, and
three more punctures in the tube... one of them at the bottom of the
valve: not good. Nae wonder it was leaking.... it really
needs a new tube. I patched the tube and
got Maggie’s bike back together then thought ... “you idiot, why not just use
your own bike?” (I’ve been using
Maggie’s bike since before I had my hip replacement). I
brought my bike out, pumped up the tyre’s and went round the Ferry for a trial
run! The first thing I noticed was
that my bike is half as heavy as Maggie’s!
If the weather is suitable tomorrow morning I’ll go for a run down to
the harbour; it’s getting ‘on’ and off’
my own bike that I’ll have to master!
It’s hard to
make dismounting a bike, by way of falling off, look refined.
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| Elie Bay with Merganser in the foreground |
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| Bonnie cloud |
Janet
and Lesley will be back home from Dunoon;
they had travelled over for Sharon and Gary’s wedding. I was going to go, but changed my mind
because I wasn’t sure I’d be fit enough for the journey. I must be thinking ‘old’! I’ve seen the photo’s of everyone having a good
time on Facebook .... and kinda wish I’d made the effort. However,
I couldn’t have gone anyway .... nae car until Monday!
Showers
are forecast for tomorrow, though the afternoon might be Okay.
Photographs
: Top –serene looking Elie Bay this morning, Middle – Elie Bay with a raft of Merganser in
the foreground, and, Bottom – lovely cloud.
