25th
November 2016 (Friday)
.... 09.30 We have another gorgeous ,
‘crisp and sunny’ morning, after an overnight frost. I went down to the beach to see
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| The Breakwater, Elie .... at sunrise. |
the sunrise,
over St Abb’s Head.... the furthest East point on the ‘sooth’ side. There’s
a light Northwest breeze that added a bit of wind chill, so it is ‘cool’; but it was bonnie ... and well worth getting ‘up’
for. I wandered along to the
Breakwater then back home along the ‘bents’:
a very enjoyable, albeit short,
walk.
Jimmy
and I are going to Sainsbury’s (Leven) for ‘morning coffee’; we’ll do some shopping when we’re there. Sainsbury’s is the best for parking for
Jimmy, and there’s a lift up to the Cafe.
18.00 Oh my word ... it is bitter cold
tonight; there’s dampness in the air
which is making it feel ‘raw’, when exposed to the, Northwest, wind. I know this because I went up to the third
tee to watch the sunset, which is about as exposed as you could get. The twenty minutes after the sunsets is always
the bonniest but I didn’t have a tripod with me.... and I definitely need a tripod
when the sun has gone down, and there’s less light about.
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| The footpath through the bents. |
21.30 Jimmy
and I went to Leven in the morning, but ended up going to ‘The Bargain Store’ (where
I buy my toothpaste) for Jimmy’s messages:
that said, he forgot one important item (I can’t remember what it was)
and went along to Anstruther in the afternoon .... and forgot it again! Windscreen wash .... that’s what it
was. We had our morning ‘cuppa’ in Ivy... having
forgotten to go into Sainsbury’s after leaving the Bargain Store. Sainsbury’s and the Bargain Store are diagonally
across from each other, and 200 metres apart ...the problem being that the main
road, the one we take on the way home, is between them! Being retired is not easy!
I
have ‘nae plans’ for tomorrow: the
weather forecast for tomorrow is for it to be
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| Earlsferry at sunset. |
cloudier, and not frosty, so I
won’t have to scrape Sooper Buggy’s windscreen.
Not that I do much in that
respect anyway. Sooper Buggy is moored
up with her stern to the rising sun, so I scrape the rear window and let the
sun warm up the inside of the car: scraping
the windscreen is then a dawdle.
Photographs
: Top – The Breakwater, Elie, at sunrise, Middle – the footpath through the ‘bents’,
and Bottom – Earlsferry at sunset.
