12th
September 2016 (Monday)
.... 09.00 I have finally found out
why the green keepers sit sideways on the wee roller machine that you see scuttling over
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| David on the 'Scuttler' ... an Oz' green roller. |
the greens; the machine is manufactured in Australia,
and comes with the seat facing sideways.
I still don’t see the advantage of sitting sideways, apart from a
different view, but there must be one; and the greens look good after they’ve been rolled.
We
have a ‘breezy and overcast’ morning;
and, though the clouds can threaten rain at times, rain isn’t in the
forecast for us... in fact we should have warm sunny spells by midday. I
need my breakfast, having been out on the bike for a turn round the Chapel
Green etc.
21.30 It has been warm today.... with the wind
coming straight up from somewhere warm.
I went out on the bike in the afternoon... only along the villages and
up through Elie Estate but it was extremely enjoyable. I had been working in the garden .... but came
to the conclusion that I needed to have some play time .... oops ... exercise. I enjoyed meeting a number of folks
enjoying our wee villages, before going into the Estate.... which I seemed to
have all to myself. Although it has
been mostly a
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| Elie |
dull day, with a couple of showers around midday, the cloud cover
broke up for a while, and we ended up with a slightly brighter evening. It did begin to spit rain when I was up at
Chapel Green at sunset time ... which was disappointing.... but not that surprising. The weather forecast for tomorrow is; ‘bright
and sunny’ in the morning, with cloud developing later.
When
I was out on the bike, this afternoon, my breathing was imperfect.... a sure sign of
pollution in the air. When I got back
home I had a look at the DEFRA pollution site, and higher pollution levels are
forecast for the East Coast of the UK, tomorrow and Wednesday. I must have felt the start of it this
afternoon. The monitoring station nearest
to us is in Edinburgh.... this means that my breathing, is the only ‘monitoring
station’ I can use around our villages.
Jimmy
and I are hoping to go to Leven in the morning, with the completed ‘Blue
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| Earlsferry half an hour before sundown |
Badge’
form..... however Jimmy has to phone, to get an ‘appointment’ time for
this; so it might be tomorrow afternoon
before we go to Leven. In fact it might
not even be tomorrow! Jings I remember
when you just wandered in to your Local Office to get things. There are fewer ‘Local Offices’ now, and
Leven is probably ‘our’ Local Office’. Anstruther
has a ‘Local Office’ but it is only ‘open’ on two mornings a week; Tuesday and Thursday. Jings... before we know it Leven will be
the administrative Centre for the East Neuk.
Photographs
: Top – David Bowers on the ‘Oz’ green roller, Middle – Elie Harbour, Bottom – Sunset
time at Earlsferry.
