24th
August 2016 (Wednesday)
.... 08.00 Feeling in a ‘playful’ mood
this morning, I went down on the beach (at 05.45), to catch the sunrise; which it did,
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| Sunrise time, today, at Elie |
but was hidden behind low cloud
..... and, I’ve been up to Chapel Green on the bike. Actually, I wasn’t the first on the beach
today.... there were fresh ‘Man, and Dog Wednesday’ tracks on a virgin sand
bank! It was/is a bonnie morning for
being out early; and, it will be even ‘warmer
and sunnier’ once the sun burns the cloud back.
21.30 The temperature in Ivy garden reached 22c at
14.00 .... and I had an attack of ‘the mauchless’. There is only one known way to cope with ‘the
mauchless’ (hereafter TM)... that is to have a siesta; I did this. When I woke up I got my book out and read
until the air began to feel cooler.
This is ‘Bonnie Scotland’ and I am unaccustomed to having to take a
couple of hours ‘out’ in the afternoon.
That said it was good to have another bonnie day, and the beach would be
busy.
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| Lovely evening |
I
have been pruning a tree, on and off, most of the day; the result of all this activity is that ‘broon
bucket’ is fu’ tae the eyeballs,... luckily it’s the ‘bb’ this Friday. I have decided to get rid of this tree....
it’s only supposed to be a wee tree, but it has ambitions of becoming a big one....
however, I have a 'plan'; I’ll cut it down to size, bore a couple of holes in it and pour ‘stump
killer’ into the holes. The ‘plan’ is
to leave a stump of about six feet, with short branches sticking out to hang bird
feeders on.
By
evening time I was feeling ‘frisky’ again, and went up to Chapel Green on the
bike to ‘potter around’. It’s a lovely
evening and lots of people were enjoying it, by way of walking .. or playing on
the beach. I nearly fell asleep on
The Boss’s seat, it was so quiet. The
wind is from the East so we might have low cloud tomorrow morning...
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| Kellie Law from Chapel Green |
this means
I might not be getting out of bed at 05.30 to catch the sunrise at 06.02.... though
I will look out, to see what the weather is like, just in case.
We nearly had a bonnie sunrise this morning, with high clouds being lit
up by the rising sun .... then a bank of low cloud moved in and obscured
everything.
Photographs
: Top – sunrise, Middle – folk enjoying the beach on a lovely evening, and Bottom
– Kellie Law from The Boss’s seat.
