15th
October 2016 (Saturday)
....09.00 Oh dearie me ....it looks
like another bad hair day again; it’s
raining!... and it looks like it has been (raining) all
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| Largoward Village Hall |
night: not a morning for this ‘boy’ going out to
play that’s for sure. The rain is
forecast to peter out during the afternoon, leaving us with a.... ‘bright sunny
and romantic evening’. The weather forecaster
didn’t say the word ‘romantic’, but I’ve fallen ‘in love’ with the lassie; hence ‘romantic’. I’d fall ‘in love’ with her mair if she
forecast ‘bright and sunny’. I shall ‘hibernate’.
Last
night Tam (Pryde) and I were speaking about when we were younger, and Tam
mentioned Jim Webster and his wife Emma.
The last time I saw Jim and Emma must have been in 1957/8 before I went to
do my National service,
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| Crane in at Elie |
and they went orf to Australia. I remember dancing with Emma in Largoward
Hall... Jim would be there with Emma ..... and me with Maggie. Reminiscing; it’s that kind o’ day.
21.30 This turned out to be an interesting day, for
me, even though the only real ‘bright sunny spell’ lasted about an hour. After the rain ‘nearly’ stopped, I went out,
on the bike, for a quick run up to get the paper, when I spotted a notice board
pointing out that this was the ‘Elie Model Weekend’, so I thought, .... “hey I’d
like to get in among the models”. To
facilitate this sudden alteration to the ‘plan for today’, I bought a map: I didn’t need the ‘map’, being that I knew
where everything was anyway, but that’s how the organisers make money. The maps cost £1..... and all the
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| Ian checking the Scalextric track |
money is spent
on local community projects, to help keep our wee villages pristine, pretty...
and welcoming for our visitors.
I
began my tour by visiting the ‘Scout Hut’ wherein I found three model railway
layouts, and a cake table. Being, both
a model railway, and cake enthusiast I left the ‘Scout Hut’ (that isn’t it’s
proper name by the way... I think it’ proper name is the ‘Wee Kirk Hall’) with
some new ideas for my model railway, and sweet things for “Puku”. Now where was I ... oh ... then went up to
the Elie Church Hall to fine a variety of models on show, some of which you can
actually have fun with..... such as Scalextric. Anyway Ian was playi ... er checking
if everything was working when I was in.... and from what I saw everything was
working excellently.... the wee cars were t
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| Small part of the PO display |
ravelling at the equivalent of 150
mph.
Also
in the Kirk Hall were ‘Dinky Toys’ (Our “Primrose” was the big surprise here),
model cars, and aeroplanes, and a motor racing circuit on screen where you
could test your racing skills. Very interesting: I’ll most likely be back tomorrow.
On
the way home I dropped into the “Old Post Office” where Graham has on display, his collection of Post Office ‘Dinky’
vans and other PO memorabilia. I found
this display really educational.
Elizabeth was i/c when I was in today.
Steve’s helicopters are also on
display in the ‘Old Post Office’ along with his helicopter simulator. Elizabeth had a go on that: I have never seen a helicopter climb vertically
at speed, but this one did; however it didn’t last... it bumbled its way
to
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| Elizabeth on the helicopter simulator |
earth like an autumn leaf...impacting Planet Earth (simulated version) with,
a sort of gentle, ‘crrrrrrump’. It’s a
tricky business flying a helicopter.
I
have still to visit the Bowling Club where the Thomas the Tank engine layout is
on display: I’ll do that tomorrow afternoon. The
morning will be taken up driving Jimmy to Leven for freezer stuff; he needs food.
