Model 'T' Ford at Colinsburgh Filling Station .....
20th
September 2016 (Tuesday)
.... 09.00 Although it is cloudier
this morning we have the start of a nice day;
there’s very little wind, and the sun should
burn off some of the clouds
later; it’s probably a morning for
working n the garden! The beach was
gorgeous this morning, at sunrise ... and will be all day, because, we have an outgoing tide, giving us a ‘big’
beach, and rocks to potter about among.
Yes .... it’s a good day for the garden. I’ll nip some twigs orf the Buddleia
bush; to salve my conscience.
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| Elie this morning |
21.30 The garden is looking good ....wellll
... slightly better than it was
yesterday,.... the Buddleia bush being
minus five twigs. It has been too good
a day to miss the reflection photos that were there for the taking; so I
went out, and ‘took’. Andrew, Dave,
Douglas and Harry were out golfing so I used them as ‘models’, to get some
‘life’ on the golf course photos..... mostly with Kincraig and West Bay in the
background. I was at the top of Lundar
Law, but just below where the ‘Polish soldiers’ had a machine gun site, is
actually a better place to cover golfers
on the 10th green. I’ll use that the
next time.
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| Harry, Andrew, Douglas and Dave on the tenth green. |
I
spent most of the morning, after doing some household chores, and nipping three
twigs orf the Buddleia bush ... up at Chapel Green. I had a flask of coffee ... and some chocolate
biscuits for an eleven o’clock break, at the Boss’s seat. Jimmy had wended his way up to Chapel Green
too, but I had only one cup ... and Jimmy disnae like coffee ... wellll not
mine anyway! He ate the chocolate
biscuits. Brian and Moira were out
walking, and stopped for a chat, before continuing on their way along the
Coastal Path: the Chapel Green bit of
the Coastal Path i.e. Chapel Green was
a busy place this morning.
In
the afternoon I took Jimmy up to St Andrews in his car for his
appointment. We arrived there early,
so forced ourselves to have a cuppa in the Cafe, before going to the Waiting
Room. I’m not keen on ‘waiting rooms’ but this one is reasonable; however, the reading material was boring
today; someone must have taken in a batch of car magazines. Jimmy’s appointment went as per usual ... “everything
is fine,
we’ll see you in three months” ... and “keep taking the pills”. We were
back in Elie by 17.10.
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| Model 'T' Ford at Colinsburgh |
The
weather for tomorrow is going to be much the same as today’s was ... sunny
spells with light winds. I’ll nick another couple of twigs orf the
Buddleia bush before going out on the bike.
Photographs
: Top – sunrise time this morning, Middle – Harry, Andrew, Douglas and Dave on
the tenth green, and Bottom – Model ‘T’ Ford at Colinsburgh Filling Station. Ford fitted all white tyres to the Model T
as standard up until 1914.. the first Model ‘T’ having rolled off the ‘new’
production line in Detroit in 1908. It
took 93 minutes to assemble a Model ‘T’.
