Donald Trump becomes President Elect .....

 9th November 2016 (Wednesday) .... 09.30   This is the morning that Hillary Clinton found out that she won’t go into the History books by becoming Female
Morning time at Elie.
President of the United States:  instead she will go into the history books as the candidate who lost to Donald Trump, ... Donald Trump who is now the ‘President Elect’ of the United States of America.    We have the makings of a surprising few years ahead in Western politics, with the UK exiting the EU... and a new shift to the right in the USA.    So who will become the first Female President of the USA?     Melania, the First Lady Elect, perhaps!   
There is no denying it:   the politics of the Western world is in flux.... mostly because, even when the politicians in the UK  told us ‘voters’ that they were listening to us, and came up with more ‘empty promises’:  they continued doing things ‘their way’:  so ...we ended up with ‘Brexit’!    The 'school bullies' are in charge of the playground now.    That’s politics sorted.

Elie
We have a miserable, dreich morning here;   that said there are a few paler grey patches appearing in the general greyness above:  perhaps out of the gloom will appear sunshine.    I need a cuppa after such a miserable start to the day.
21.30     The world may have been in a state of ‘disbelief’ at the result of the Presidential Election in the USA, but things were nice, peaceful, and normal on the ‘Ferry Beach’ this morning.... as ever.   We’ve even had a couple of  ‘bright spells’ in an otherwise dreary day,.... one of them was Sue out walking her dogs.... the other being the Friendship Lunch’.    The Friendship Lunch was ‘choc a bloc’ today... there didn’t seem to be an empty chair in the Hall.... and there were some ‘new’ faces,....  always good to see! 
  
I don’t have a ‘plan’ for tomorrow, but I might go shopping early:  early, so that I’m
Sue and dogs.
back in time to have the kettle on for Jimmy after he does his ‘Alice’s Seat’ walk.   The Weather is forecast to be ‘bright, sunny and cold’ tomorrow, with the best of the sunny spells across Fife... and .. especially The Royal Burgh.    The forecaster didn’t mention the ‘Royal Burgh’ but she was looking at the correct place on the weather map!


Photographs : Top and Middle –Elie this morning, and Bottom – Sue and her dogs on the Ferry beach this afternoon.

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