2nd
July 2016 (Saturday)
.... 09.00 The first thing I noticed when I went
outside this morning was the temperature .... it is
not warm! Apparently the ‘jet
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| EKC walkers on Balcarres |
stream’
is south of us and bring cold air down from cauld places....an ‘ early autumn’
feel to summer. It will be a good day
for being on Balcarres though there will be showers by the look of the rather
attractive looking clouds that are scuttling over on a very brisk west wind: some of the showers, later in the afternoon,
could be heavy and thundery. Not what
I want to be caught out in; though I
will be wearing a waterproof jacket,.... because of the cold air. I’d
better ‘go’ the kettle will be ‘on’ in Colinsburgh Town Hall.
20.30 We had a great walk through Balcarres ...
well, those that walked did; I went on
my bike so that I could get some photos of the ‘walkers’ at different
locations.... coming towards me. Had I
been walking, all the photographs would have been ‘back views’ of folks
disappearing into the distance!
Because this was organised as a ‘cluster’ walk we had folks from Upper
Largo, and St Monans with
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| ... near Sprattyhall, Balcarres |
us.... a total of 39 ‘walkers’; 40 counting myself.... and five dogs. I biked 9.1 kilometres (5.65 miles) from
Colinsburgh Town Hall through the Estate and back to Colinsburgh Town Hall . I didn’t follow the exact route that the ‘walkers’
did, but I think they would have covered, give or take a couple of hundred
metres, the same distance. The weather was fine right up to the last 10
minutes when we caught the edge of a heavy shower. All of us were ready for the soup,
sandwiches, coffee/tea and goodies that some, ‘hard working girls’ had prepared,
while we were out pottering around Balcarres Estate. Yes it was a really nice way to spend a few
hours .... I really enjoyed myself... and I’m sure everyone else did too. I travelled 17.5 kilometres (10.8 miles) on
the bike today; so we have one tired boy updating The Hutte tonight.
Jimmy
came along later in the afternoon, and we had a quiet cuppa in ‘The Hutte’...
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| The last group 100 metres from 'home'.. |
feeding ‘Blob’ and friends. One or two
heavy showers passed over when we were sitting in there; in fact I thought we were going to have
hailstones at one time; it has been
cold enough. I’m back to wearing ‘winter’
togs! A mug of hot chocolate, catch up with the news
on the television, and an early night in
bed with my book; yes ... the perfect way to end a ‘perfect day’.
Photographs
: Top – The ‘Double Dykes’ road on Balcarres estate, Middle – near Sprattyhall
Farm, and Bottom – the final group arriving at Colinsburgh ....it was starting
to rain at this time.
