John and Linda..... ....
9th
October 2106 (Sunday) .... 09.00
Important information: 76 days
(all of them shopping ones) until Christmas!
We
have a lovely, autumnal, morning here; definitely a doing stuff morning. I had
the beach to myself, most of the time,
this morning; a dog walker, appeared from the Breakwater as
I was getting ready to leave the beach.
The sunrise was bonnie, not spectacular: but I prefer the half hour before sunrise atmosphere....
a sort of mystical time.
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| Elie Bay at sunrise time. |
Jimmy
and I will be sorting out his freezer ... luckily it hadn’t been stocked up
last week so this, though bad, isn’t totally catastrophic.
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| John and Linda on the 'Royal' beach. |
Jimmy’s
freezer is back in action, full of food and succulents: that ‘mission’
took up most of the morning. When I
think about it no wonder I’m tired; I
was ‘up’ early, walked along the beach, biked to Jimmy’s and back, then went
out for another walk in the afternoon.... I’ve had a reasonable amount of exercise today. Anyway where was I? Oh... Jimmy’s freezer! The old stuff has been thrown out, and new
stuff bought... but: we forgot to get
ice-cream. He has the cones, but no
ice – cream to fill them with .... this
is a catastrophe; almost on the level of
the freezer being switched off!
In
the afternoon I went out for a walk;
when I got out onto the pavement I didn’t know which way I wanted to
go... up, to the golf course and Pony Field, or down, to the beach: this is a problem when there are two ways to
go; I have to make a decision! I chose the beach. This
turned out to be my lucky day, and the right choice, because I
met John and
Linda down there; they had walked over
from Shell Bay to have lunch in the Pavilion.
The three of us wandered along the beach, wading through piles of
seaweed to have a look at the ‘Pilgrim s Pier’... then up to Maggie’s Seat, to
discuss the merits of being ‘me’. That
didn’t take long. Cameron, and his
next door neighbours from New Zealand were out walking and we ended up
chatting. Everybody went their
separate ways, with me ending up in Ivy
well ready for food.
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| Hungry Heron. |
I
don’t know what ‘Plan’ I’ll come up with for tomorrow; I may do some gardening now that the ‘broon’
bucket is ‘stood staunin’ there ... empty!
The weather forecast is ‘good’ for gardeners ... that’s ‘me’.
Photographs
: Top – sunrise time, Middle –John and Linda, and Bottom – Heron.
