2c this morning ... cool
3rd
October 2016 (Monday)
.... 09.00 First thing .... it was
cauld doon on the beach this morning;
in fact it was so cold that I was convinced that there was
snow on
Soutra Hill (on the south side of the Firth)... then I realised it was more
likely to be a bank of fog. However
the sky this morning, before the sunrise, made being down there well worth it. It was gorgeous. By the
time the sun began to creep up over the horizon, the sky had lost its vivid colours, but it
was still ‘magic’ in a more subtle way.
Everything is ‘gorgeous’ this morning:
it’s a great morning for being ‘out’ .... I might do some ‘work’ today.
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| Twenty minutes before sunrise - Elie Bay. |
20.30 This has been a surprising day ... and a busy
one; but not ’busy’ doing things I was
supposed to be doing. It all began
after breakfast, when I took a quick look at the calendar, saw that the third
was ‘free’; this left me ... well, free
to do anything. I decided that I’d
take the ‘95’ bus to Leven, .... with the bus route through Kilconquhar being ‘closed’,
it means that the ‘95’ has to take the
Muircambus road. This would be an enjoyable
‘mission’, to get photos of this road from the top deck of the bus. But that’s not how it was; oh no .... the ‘Closed’ road in Kilconquhar
wasn’t ‘closed’ so the ‘95’ bus route
was operating as normal. I enjoyed a cuppa in Stuarts (Leven) and
caught the X60 back to Elie.... arriving back at Ivy, via the beach ‘cos the
tide was
out, at 12.30. At Ivy I found
a message on the answer machine, from Pat, wondering where I had been: I’d missed an ‘Outreach’ meeting. Oh before I forget ... Ivy Cottage is now
operating from the October calendar! Apologies
to Pat ... and all the other good folks on Outreach Committee, who, somehow, manage
to operate without me.
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| Sunrise |
After
lunch, just as I was settling down to contemplate my afternoon; Jimmy phoned to ask if I remembered that we
had to go for our “flu jab” at the surgery this afternoon. I hadn’t ... remembered i.e. I promptly changed ‘the plan’ to incorporate
‘flu jab’ into the afternoon. Spent
most of the early part of the afternoon washing “Sooper Buggy”, then sat
chatting to Jimmy, and ‘Blob’, in the
Hutte; Jimmy had gone for his ‘flu jab at 14.00, and was in need of
a cuppa to recover.... ‘Blob’ was just moochin’. I
went along to the surgery at 15.30 and got ‘jabbed’ by Dr Kyle... then managed
to get myself into a knot trying to put my jersey on, but eventually did, get the
jersey ‘on’... after all this stress I was badly in need of
one of the
chocolates that were on offer.
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| Twenty minutes before sunrise ... looking West |
Since
then I have cleaned “Sooper Buggy’s” windows, and got the polish out; if it isn’t too cold I might polish a bit of
‘her’ tomorrow. It’s ‘normal’ for me to
polish the bonnet .... that’s the bit I see when I’m sitting in ‘her’.
This
has been a happy, and enjoyable, day.... in spite of the ‘blunders. I’m not happy about missing the ‘Outreach
meeting ... Pat makes good coffee.... but the other bits of my day have been ‘fun’.
Finally
.... Myra ... oops Jim and Myra are back from their holiday! I know this because Jim was spotted, from a
‘95’ bus, driving into Elie, and later driving past Ivy Cottage. Both, Myra and Jim were also seen, by my
Top Secret roving reporter, in the
vicinity of the ‘flu jab Surgery this afternoon.
Photographs
: Top – twenty minutes before sunrise, Middle – sunrise ... notice the change
in the colour of the sky; this happens
in minutes, and Bottom – looking West twenty minutes before sunrise.
