Jenny's Thanksgiving Service .....
14th
November 2016 (Monday)
.... 08.30 It’s overcast, windy and
warm this morning.... not ‘pretty looking’ weather but highly bearable for this
time of year. Mind you our chances of seeing the ‘super moon’ tonight would appear
to be
slender, as the cloud is forecast to be with us for the next month
... er 18 hours: but you never know, a
few clear spells may come our way. My ‘plan’
is to do a wee bit of ‘ousework, before going out for a walk: it looks like it could rain in the next hour
or so.
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| Ferry Road Earlsferry |
16.00 This afternoon I went to Jenny’s (Reekie) Funeral
Service, in Kinneuchar Kirk. Jenny, and
her husband John, lived in The Royal Burgh, in the High Street, ‘roond the
corner’ from Ivy. It was good to see Kinneuchar
kirk nigh on full,... where the service of Thanksgiving was taken by the Rev’d
Dr. Peter Mills. I can’t sing, but
those that could did the two hymns justice.... it is nice listening to hymns
being sung enthusiastically. (I’m sure
that I heard Honor and Jock giving it ‘laldie’). The service was followed by interment in
Kinneuchar cemetery, with Jenny joining her beloved John, who pre deceased her
a number of years ago.
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| The Main Highway near Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand |
16.30 The camera is mounted on the tripod.... all I need is a clear sky!
21.00 The camera is mounted on the tripod....all
I need is a clear sky! Yep... I I said
that earlier, and things haven’t changed:
still no clear bits in the sky! Fiona, along at Pettycur, will most likely be,
happily, snapping away, getting moon shot after moon shot! I suppose I could go out and take some ‘night
shots’, because it does not look like there’s much chance of seeing the ‘super
moon’ this side of midnight .... by which time I’ll be getting some ‘beauty
sleep’. Maybe I should have the words ‘much’ and ‘needed’
in there!
I’m
looking forward to Gary, my nephew, coming along from Stirling to visit ‘The
Royal Burgh’ ... and me ... tomorrow. The
weather forecast is ‘bright and sunny’ with a fresh Westerly wind.... and a wee
bit cooler than it was today, so we might get up to Balcarres. Gary retired from the Police Force earlier
this year , and has recently set up his own business, Heart of Scotland Ancestry, researching ‘Family History’ etc ... I cannae
spell ‘genealogy’. Gary’s hobby was, for umpteen years
researching his own, and Julie his wife’s Family trees, and Scottish Family
History in general: he has now turned
that ‘hobby’ into ‘work’: Julie is
pleased by this! You can find out more,
and
have an interesting ‘read’ by clicking on the link.
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| The Main Highway near Kaikoura - it's easy to see how landslips occur. |
Photographs
: Top – Looking down Ferry Road this morning, Middle – This is only a small
part of the earthquake damage on the main West coast Highway, on South Island,
New Zealand. (Photo by The NZ Force)
and Bottom – this is the same road (but not the same place... though I probably
do have a photo taken from the car as we rounded that corner) when ‘M’ drove us
up from Hanmer Springs to Kaikoura on our way home to Nelson. You can easily see why the roads get hit
with landslips during an earthquake.
