19th
September 2016 (Monday)
... 10.00 This is the kind of morning
I like.... bright and sunny with ‘autumn’ in the air .... the kind of morning
that gives me
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| Early morning at Elie |
the urge to get into the
garden to clobber a few weeds. I haven’t
done that yet ... clobbered weeds in the garden.... but I have been along to
the Paper Shop, and down to the harbour.
Not only does the air feel good there’s a braw ‘light’ about... so, I’ve
enjoyed myself. Now? .... I suppose I’d
better have a look at the garden!
21.30 I was a bundle of energetic boy genes this
morning; I stripped my bed, a week
early. I usually do it every two weeks
but I got mixed up, anyway the weather forecast was good for washing sheets
today ... and I was in the mood for bed making. The bedding has been washed, and it’s all
nearly dry; dry enough for ironing...
apart
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| HNLMS Snellius - Dutch Hydrographic survey vessel |
from one sheet, which I’ll hang out first thing tomorrow..
Progress
in the garden never got beyond the ‘look’;
Jimmy came along and fancied a run out to someplace so we went to
Pettycur Harbour, at Kinghorn, after our morning cuppa. It’s a sort of ‘old fashioned’ wee harbour,
with creel boats and motor pleasure boats ... but nae yachts. Some of the boats look like they had been
built by the fishermen. This is what
makes Pettycur harbour different, .... and interesting. We had an enjoyable potter around, I took a
few photographs, .... we then went to the Harbour Master’s House in Dysart for
a cuppa. It was a nice morning for
being
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| Jimmy at Pettycur Bay Harbour |
out. By the time we got back to
Elie (and The Royal Burgh) it had clouded over; so we had done the right thing
going out in the morning. I found half a dozen mushrooms lying at Ivy
gate when I got back ... I like mushrooms, but couldn’t use these, because dogs
‘claim’ the stone post at Ivy gate. The mushrooms hadn’t been left for me, they’d
dropped out of some shopping bag I think.
Tomorrow
I must definitely do something in the garden ... even if it’s only to reconnoitre,
and see how the enemy, the weeds, are deploying themselves. Efficiently, and effectively, I imagine....
having seeded all over the place.
Jimmy
has been on the phone; he has an
appointment at St Andrews tomorrow
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| The three Forth Bridges as seen from Pettycur Harbour |
afternoon at 16.00; that is a good time ‘cos I’ll have done all
the things I need er ... want to do before then. The weather forecast is good for drying the
second sheet .... much the same weather as today.
Photographs
: Top – early morning light at Elie Harbour, Next – HNLMS Snellius a Dutch hydro-
graphic survey vessel.... and Next -
Jems at Pettycur Bay harbour, and Bottom - the three Forth Bridges as seen from Pettycur.
