2nd
August 2016 (Tuesday)
.... 09.00 The East wind has brought mist in from the North sea so it’s overcast just now,
but the sun should burn that off to give us a nice enough day... though the
East wind will most likely be with us all day. It is
 |
| David's dog |
forecast to rain later in the
afternoon. I’m going to take ‘M’ along
to North Queensferry to photo her at the Forth Bridges, so we’d best get that
all done ‘as soon as’.
The
early mist is creating a bonnie atmosphere this morning .... not “iggzactly” summery but
bonnie, in a different way. The beach
was not as busy as yesterday morning, but yesterday was a Bank Holiday in
Scotland (and Northern Ireland) so there would be more people staying for the
long weekend. I’d better get myself organised to go along
and get ‘M’ .... oh dear, I should have done mair dustin’ .... and ooverin’.
22.30 What a fantastic day this has been ....
and all ‘M’ and I did was go along to the ‘Forth Bridges’, stopping at one of
my most favourite of all old harbours, Pettycur, on the way. I wouldn’t say that the journey along was
uneventful... getting into North Queensferry involved a three mile detour, due
to the roadwork’s for the new bridge,
 |
| 'M' admiring the Forth Bridge |
and I am not at my happiest when driving
along coned lanes.... it was like driving through a maze. Anyway we got there unscathed, and ‘ parked
up’ in the wee Car Park under the rail bridge. Everyone is trying to make ‘M’s holiday
memorable, and today was the first time
she’d been at North Queensferry. ‘M’
and I had been to Pettycur a couple of years ago, but I can’t go near Kinghorn
without going down to the old harbour at Pettycur Bay. Of course with ‘M’ as my ‘model’ I went
‘trigger happy’ with the camera, and, along with the ones when Michael and
Janice were here, I have loads of photographs to ‘play’ with, over the
winter. All the photos I’ve taken of
‘M’, at the various places we’ve been, I’ll put on a stick as a memento of this
visit to Bonnie Scotland.
By
the time we’d finished at Pettycur, and the ‘Bridges’, it was time to think of
lunch. We decided it would be best to
negotiate our way back through the cone lanes, towards Inverkeithing, where
we’d stop and look for a place to have lunch.
The journey back to Inverkeithing was more or less ‘plain sailing’ and
we found a Car Park in the middle of town, not far from the ‘Burgh Arms’, a
real ‘olde world’ kind of pub, with
 |
| 'M' at Pettycur |
‘pub grub’ of the best kind. We both had a steaming hot savoury mince
pie (in a ceramic pie dish), with peas and chips. It was marvelous eating with the background
sound of the locals in ‘their’ pub. It
was ‘loud’ just nice and ‘honest’ sounding.
There was something ‘earthy’ and old fashioned about it that made me
think of the Aberdeen Arms in Tarland.
From
Inverkeithing we made our way back to Leven...yes, you’ve guessed it,
Sainsbury’s, where we had a cuppa, and a piece of cake, before doing a wee
shopping. We arrived back at Ivy just
as the rain was beginning, and therefore in time to get the washing in..... and
about ten minutes before Jimmy arrived for an afternoon cuppa. On the way home from Leven we had to stop
to allow three Fire Engines and some kind of ‘Fire Car’, travelling East with
blue lights flashing, and
 |
| The deck of the new bridge nearing completion |
sirens blaring;
they went into the Shell Bay road at Kinneuchar Station. Having just checked the ‘news’ online it was
folks doing the Kincraig Chainwalk ,at high tide, who got stuck ... though I
can’t imagine what the fire engines were needed for. The media call it the ‘Elie Chainwalk’; I don’t know where that chain walk is: so I assume they mean the Kincraig Chainwalk!
Photographs
: Top – The Ferry beach this morning, Next – ‘M’ admiring the Forth Bridge,
Next – Pettycur Bay harbour, and, Bottom – the deck of the new bridge is nearing
completion.
