Lovely morning ..... but cool
7th
July 2016 (Thursday)
.... It looks like we are going to have a ‘bright and breezy’ day .... a good day
for getting a washing dried. This is good,
because the washing I put out yesterday is still on the line! ‘M’ and I are going to take Jimmy
along to
Lundin Links for his ‘physio’. Jimmy
will be there for an hour, so, instead of waiting at Lundin Links, ‘M’ and I
will go on to Leven, then pick up Jimmy on the way back.
in the Sailing Club: which is where we spent a pleasant hour
chatting and watching the folk wandering around, mostly aimlessly, enjoying the
sunshine. Getting from the harbour back
up to Elie was not easy.... we ended up getting stuck in traffic at both ends
of the Toft, or ‘Ship Inn’ street. Once
everything was sorted out, and we were back moving again, we reached the
conclusion that it, the traffic at The Ship Inn, hadn’t actually been too bad today....
because it will get worse. I never
take Sooper Buggy down to the harbour in the summer(?) time.... it’s bad enough
going long that street on the bike!
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| Elie |
21.30 I have had an ‘attack’ of ‘Scottish
mauchless’ today, brought on by the temperature in Ivy garden being 24c at one
point. It has been a beautiful day,
but too hot and airless for me. This
meant that ‘M’ and I had a quiet afternoon watching the tennis; ‘M’ was knitting, while watching... I fell
sound asleep.
Luckily
we had been ‘active’ in the morning:
taking Jimmy along to his physio appointment, then going to Leven, where
‘M’ had hoped to get her hair cut, but the hairdresser was too busy. We had a cuppa, and a buttery, in Stuart’s,
before browsing a couple of charity shops.
On the way home, from Leven, we did remember to stop at Lundin Links to
pick up Jimmy. Jimmy and I decided that
‘M’ needed to have a coffee
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| A thoughtful 'M' |
In
the afternoon after I woke up (I’d fallen asleep watching the tennis) I went
and pruned the Clematis, which was send ‘tentacles’ out in ‘every direction,
threatening a takeover of the Hutte even!
I
took ‘M’ back to St Monans this evening.... she, and her sisters have loads of things
to do, in the time she is over here. I
take her out to see bits and pieces of Fife
whenever I can.
Michael
and Janice are coming up from Sussex at the end of next week, for 10 days or
so, so I’ll have to get Ivy organised for them. It will be good to see them; we might find time to deal with Maggie’s request
re her ashes, if we can get most of the ‘troops’ together at one time.
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| Busy sky over Earlsferry |
If
it doesn’t rain before midnight tonight, this will have been the first whole
day, (as in 24 hours worth from midnight to midnight), that we will have had no
rain since ‘M’ arrived on the 9th June!
I think this may well be the day;
but there are heavy clouds around that may yet spoil it!
Photographs
: Top – Elie Harbour, Middle – a thoughtful ‘M’ this evening, and, Bottom – a busy
sky, and the Ferry beach.
