'Nearly crisp' morning ....
1st
November 2016 (Tuesday)
..... 08.30 It’s a gorgeous, ‘nearly
crisp’, morning .... a great morning for walking; so .... I’m going for a haircut.... and “it’s
goin’ tae be cauld on the lugs” when I come out of the Hairdresser’s. However
It looks being ‘bright and sunny’
for most of today so I’ll go walking in the afternoon: right now I’m in ‘flap on’ mode .... “Blob” is looking for food!
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| Balcarres Crag from Kilconquhar |
22.30 My word I really needed that haircut .... my lugs feel so much more comfortable; and I suspect that my hearing has improved! To celebrate
I went to Stuart’s for a coffee, where I discovered that I could even see
better; I know this because I saw an
Apple Turnover and had that with my coffee.
From Stuart’s I went round to Sainsbury’s to do some retail therapy ....
and ‘fell in love’ with the lassie at the checkout; she had beautiful black, shiny hair. Falling ‘in love’ didn’t lessen the till
bill, but I got extra Nectar points! I
left Sainsbury’s feeling ‘young’ again:
the joys of ‘love’. A couple
of ladies were selling ‘Poppy Scotland’ pin badges, at a table set up in the
shop, so I bought myself an ‘Army’ one.... and I fell ‘in love’ with both the
ladies. Do you know! ... I think I’ll
have my haircut oftener! It has been a
bonnie day right enough.
Back
at Ivy the messages had just been ‘put away’ and the kettle ‘on’ ; yep you’ve got it .... Jimmy arrived right on
cue just as the kettle began to boil.
We had our morning cuppa out in The Hutte,.... it was 70f in there.
Lunch
was the remainder of Audrey’s sausage rolls:
Audrey is Jimmy’s daughter and she makes the best sausage roll this side
o’ Kathmandu ... and the ither side as well.
After lunch, I went back up to The Hutte, did a wee bit of a Soduko and
fell asleep for
twenty minutes or so.
I awoke with the urge to do something;
I jumped into “Sooper Buggy” and went up to Kinneuchar Station and had a
walk round a couple of stubble fields.
My shoes were manky ... and I’d cleaned them especially to go to the
Surgery yesterday. That reminds me ...
I got the results of my blood test.
The kidney function is perfect, and my PSA reading at 10. It is
recommended that you don’t cycle anywhere for 24 hours before having a PSA
test; guess who biked up to the Surgery
to have his blood sample taken? Biking
can lead to spurious readings.
However I will go to St Andrews to have another reading taken; until then I will not be biking ... anywhere!
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| Kinneuchar Station. |
Tomorrow
is forecast to be a ‘good drying day’;
the weather forecasters didn’t
actually say that, but the weather they
are forecasting is of the ‘top quality’ type... “chilly at first, but ‘bright
and sunny for nigh on the whole day!
Yep a washing it is... I have two woollen jerseys that I’ll do.
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| The west part of Colinsburgh village |
Photographs
: Top – Balcarres Crag from Kilconquhar, Middle – The road in the former
Kilconquhar Railway Stations sidings, and Bottom – part of Colinsburgh
village. The olive green line of trees
to the right of centre of the photo, are on both sides of a road/lane, variously
named ; ‘Old kirk road’, the ‘back road’ or the Linden Walk, on Balcarres
Estate. They are lime trees.
