10th
November 2016 (Thursday)
....10.00 and we have beautiful
morning at the ‘Centre of the Universe’ .... ‘bright sunny and cold’; a perfect morning for getting things done. I scampered along to Leven to do some shopping
at
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| Early morning jogger enjoying the beach. |
Sainsbury’s: Iain is coming down from
Auchnagatt, at the weekend, so I thought I’d better top up with ‘food and
goodies’. The roads were busier than
I thought they’d be then I realised that the car clock was at ‘Ivy’ time. I’d been down on the beach earlier and
lost track of time: I’m made for ‘tidying
up and organising’. Orf to put the
kettle ‘on’ .... Jimmy will be moored up on “Alice’s Seat” by now.
21.30 This has been a fruitful day for me; I did buy a lot of fruit in Sainsbury’s but
it’s not that kind of ‘fruitful’ I am referring to. No ...
I have been a busy boy, and managed to get some things done, one of
which was washing the ‘bloo’ bucket with disinfectant. It had been smelling ‘foostie’ (fusty) for
some strange reason. Anyway getting
that done gave me much satisfaction; I’m
easily pleased. I also did some
ironing, and managed to entertain Jimmy a couple of times. Of course we had the ‘Drop in Cafe’ in the
afternoon, it always guarantees to be a nice ‘break’ for tea and chat. As is our usual habit after the ‘cafe’,
Jimmy and I went down to the harbour.
It was late afternoon by this time and the ‘light’ was gorgeous. The ‘light’ may have been ‘gorgeous’ but
the temperature was not.... however, it was well worth getting cold hands, to
get the photos I saw all around me. Wherever
I go now I look at everything, and
everybody, through an imaginary camera view finder; I see ‘my’
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| Elie in late afternoon sunlight |
world as a series of rectangles! How boring is that! Having said that, it keeps me ‘happy’ and I
enjoy myself with the camera: the ‘Centre
of The Universe’ consists of a multitude of bonnie ‘rectangles’ I can tell you.
Jimmy
and I have to go to Leven tomorrow morning;
his car got covered in bird droppings where he was ‘moored up’ when
visiting the ‘Drop in Cafe’ this afternoon.
A visit to the Car Wash is required.
He also wants to get some shopping when in Leven.
As I said earlier, Iain
is coming down tomorrow evening, he’s working in the Edinburgh Office over the
weekend, and will get my laptop updated.
It was frustrating at first, doing everything on it in slow motion. The ‘mouse’ freezes until the laptop has
finished doing whatever has been ‘requested’, and then freezes again after the
next ‘click’. Now that I’m used to it
I find it almost ‘relaxing’. I work on
the main computer and ‘do’ the laptop ‘clicking’ in between times. I need the laptop for e-mails ... that can take
a l-o-n-g time, ... it goes to ‘sleep’ now and again.
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| Black butterfly ... Photographed in Spain by Jim. |
Photographs
: Top – this is what our beach is about .... doing your ‘own thing’.. Middle – Elie looking lovely in late afternoon
sunshine, and Bottom – Jim photographed
this butterfly when he, and Myra,
visited a ‘butterfly house’ in Spain. It
is a Southern Hemisphere butterfly ... I know this because Jim told me that all the butterflies in the ‘House’ came from
the Southern Hemisphere.
