Maggie's ashes ....
22nd
July 2016 (Friday)
.... 22.00 I’m sorry to have been so
late in updating ‘ The Hutte’ today, but I haven’t been malingering... I’ve
just been ‘on the go’ from morning to evening. The weather has been less summery than the
past few days,
but nice enough... being mostly overcast and warm, with occasional
sunny intervals, and occasional light showers.
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| Elie Harbour this morning |
I
started my day, by going down to the Elie Harbour beach there was hardly a
breath of wind... so there would be reflections on the water. I walked out to where I wanted to be, and
had an enjoyable 20 minutes. Back on
the pier I met a man out taking photos of birds so we chatted about our
hobby. On the way home I got a paper,
then headed back to Ivy, where I dropped off the milk and paper, then went up
the Boss’s Seat for ‘instructions’.
By
the time I got back to Ivy, Michael had breakfast underway.... a very welcome
egg and Lorne sausage sandwich! “Puku”
is enjoying life just now! After
breakfast I
went along to St Monans to pick up ‘M’, who was bound to have been
missing me. We, ‘M’ and I, went along
to ‘The ‘Store in Ainster’ to get some nibbles etc for food, (I was i/c
catering), and came home by the Kellie Castle road.
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| The Dome Park |
As
was ‘planned’ today we liberated Maggie;
set her free from the urn she’s been in for just short of seven
years. Maggie, born in 1941, was a
daughter of the ‘Royal Burgh’, and today she returned to her native soil, her
ashes being placed in three different locations around Chapel Green... the Dome
Park , as requested by Maggie, getting by far the largest amount. As Iain said...in a typical Lawrie statement:
“Mhiraid will have some job sorting
hersel’ oot ... her eyeballs are in one place, her legs in another, and body
somewhere else!” Maggie would have laughed
at that .... and, it’s “iggzactly” what she would have expected from us. From then on I felt that Maggie was there
with us and, as in the ‘old days’, having a real laugh ... and letting us know
where she wanted to be!
Now
that we have scattered/buried Maggie’s ashes as per request, I feel happy that
‘she’
is now where she ‘wants’ to be: one of
the chosen places being ‘The Boss’s Seat’, which now has potent powers, because
we buried a small amount of ashes behind it.
(On land, you have to either bury ashes, as dogs are rather partial to
them, or scatter them where dogs rarely go).
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| Maggie being 'liberated'. |
Tomorrow’s
weather is forecast to be “bright early, then clouding over, with showers later”.
Much the same as today .... but
cooler. I don’t have a ‘plan’ for tomorrow, though I’d
like to get out on the bike to unwind.
Today, ‘stressful’, and emotional
at times, has been ‘happy’ ... the way Maggie would have wanted it.
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| Martin and Catriona standing, Iain, Me, Jimmy and Michael sitting. |
Photographs
: Top – the ‘Dome’ Park, Middle – Maggie’s
ashes being ‘liberated’, and Bottom – Martin, and Catriona standing, Iain, Me,
Jimmy and Michael, seated.... on the, by now, ‘potent’ Boss’s Seat!
