Wet start to the morning ......
21st
June 2016 (Tuesday)
.... 08.30 Apart from the fact that it’s
raining we have a bonnie morning; however,
the rain will clear away and it will be summer. I don’t like to think that yesterday was
summer! Earlier, I’d got as far as ‘The
Boss’s
seat’, on the bike, when the rain started; I’d meant to go down to the harbour too, but
.... I’m back in Ivy with the kettle in
the ‘on’ position, contemplating doing some housework until this rainy spell passes over.
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| Earlsferry from the harbour |
23.30 The early rain petered out in ‘nae time’ leaving
us with a bonnie summer’s day. There
were attractive looking clouds all around us, but the showers never came our
way.
In
the morning I did do some housework, but as soon as the sun broke through in
earnest, I went up to Elie, and down to the harbour. I nearly always go to Elie via ‘the
Breakwater’ because that’s a good ‘viewpoint’. The tide was way out, and I noticed that
it had left a nice big pool ,and, with there being no wind, it, the pool, was
like a sheet of glass: perfect for ‘reflection’
photographs. Actually the whole of
Elie Bay was nigh on ‘flat calm’, but this pool was like a mirror. When
I was taking the photographs, I knew that they
ought to look good....
everywhere around Elie and Earlsferry is ‘bonnie’ .... but when I downloaded
the photos onto the computer and saw them;
well.... they exceeded even my wildest dreams ... and I dream a
lot!
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| Elie |
From
the beach I went up to the High Street to do some shopping, then went down to
the harbour; and... found it absolutely
perfect. I see photographs everywhere I
look, even on wet days, but today, anyone with a camera, (and that means
everyone nowadays) was spoiled for choice.
I phoned Jimmy from the harbour
thinking he might want to ‘drink in’ some of whatever it was that had me all
excited, but he, Jimmy, had just finished his exercises, and was about to put
on the kettle. Jimmy’s was my next ‘port
of call’.
When
I left Jimmy’s, I went through the Estate, and got a few photos of Kinneuchar
Kirk reflected in the loch. It was
when I was leaving the estate that I noticed that the tyre on back wheel was
feeling soft: by the time I got back to Ivy
I realised that I definitely had a puncture.
I found out later that I had two punctures... one caused by a thorn
which was still in the tyre.... and the other one, also caused by thorn most
likely, which had been hauled out, after ‘doing the deed’. Anyway I managed to repair both, and the
bike is ready for action again.
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| Elie |
I’m
going along to pick up ‘M’ tomorrow morning, it’s her birthday, so I should
think of something to do. I have: Thought of something to do i.e. We’ll go up to the “Colinsburgh Lite lunch”...
that will be a surprise for ‘M’. Jings
sometimes I can be a real romantic!
This
afternoon I decided to clean the windowsills, and was pleasantly surprised when
a lady stopped to tell me that she read “The Hutte”, and that she enjoyed reading
about the village, and got much pleasure from the photographs; and many other folk have also commented. I am humbled by this. Maggie thought the idea of a ‘blog’ would
give me something to do to take my mind off her ‘nae weelness’... and it
did. With hindsight I realise that
Maggie was thinking further ahead than I did.
‘The Hutte’ gets me ‘up and out’
every day, and I’m sure Maggie is still
in the background, and probably pleasantly surprised by the following it now
has. Thank you all for managing to
make an old guy feel ... well ... ‘useful’
in some kind of way. I’ve said it
before; we live in a beautiful part of
the planet but it’s the folks that make it special.
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| Kilconquhar loch |
Photographs
: Top- Earlsferry from the harbour, Next –Elie houses, Next – Ron and Elinor... and some more Elie
houses, and, Bottom – Kilconquhar loch.
