Peaceful ....
21st
October 2016 (Friday)
10.00 .... it is a really nice, quiet
morning; what little wind there is from the West, so it
is not cold. At this time the sky is
overcast, but the sun will
break through later: we should end up with another lovely, sunny
afternoon.
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| Earlsferry |
For
some inexplicable reason I feel like doing ‘work stuff’ .... so I swept the
leaves off the pavement, and street outside Ivy.... and the next door houses. I blame the ‘pills’ .... not for the leaves;
for me feeling like doing this! Bizarrely I actually felt ‘happily satisfied’
after doing it: sometimes I wonder
about ‘me’. Now I’m thinking I should
do the whole village. Yep ... I need a
cuppa!
21.30 Instead of my more normal, ‘thinking about
working’, I‘ve been ‘working without thinking’.... and enjoying it. There is no doubting it; this has got to be a ‘side effect’ of the
‘pills’. A daud o’ paper did come with
the pills but I haven’t read it...all I know is that they (the pills) seem to
be doing their ‘job’. Having said,
that they do ‘hit me for six’ for five to six hours after I take them (I have
to take two in the morning, and one in the evening). For that first six hours I stay within easy
reach of Ivy ‘cos I feel dizzy and nauseous.... after 13.00 I feel fine.
My
whole morning was spent working outside Ivy:
the leaves I have already mentioned,...
the next ‘job’ was to wash the ‘bloo’ bucket after it was emptied; luckily that was early. That reminds me, it (the ‘bloo’ bucket, is
still ‘stood staunin’ with the lid open, I’d better go and close it in case it
rains
overnight. Although the weather
forecast does not mention rain, the “God of Rain and Serious Dampness”, could
easily see that the bucket lid is open and send a cloud over to fill it! The
“God of Rain and Serious Dampness” works in conjunction with “The God of Weeds
and Seeds” when it comes to Ivy Cottage.
Now I’ve forgotten where I was? .... yes ...got it: I’m orf to close the ‘bloo’ bucket lid! I’m back .... now that is done I might be
able to sleep tonight!
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| Fun on the Cockstail rocks - Earlsferry's second 'pier. |
My
last ‘mission’ of the morning was to wash the window sills and I’d just reached
the halfway mark when Jimmy arrived desperate for a cuppa: it hard been hard work walking round the
“Alice’s Seat” this morning. Growing
auld is hard work; no that’s not quite
correct: Growing older can be fun ....
it’s just the ‘side effects’ that
come with it that can be ‘hard work’. Anyway I finished the window sills after
Jimmy went home, then had lunch.
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| Elie beach |
You
won’t believe this: I am feeling
guilty? Why?..... because I didn’t go
down to ‘my’ beach this morning: I chose to do ‘work stuff’ instead! I don’t
like this remorseful feeling, so I’ll be down on the beach tomorrow
morning; the weather is forecast to be
brighter tomorrow, than it was today, but .... with showers creeping in from
the North Sea.
Photographs
: Top – Earlsferry beach, Middle – the Cockstail rocks, and Bottom – Elie beach: all three photos taken at, ‘sunset time’.
