Remembrance Sunday ....

13th November 2016 (Remembrance Sunday) .... We had a beautiful sunrise,  one of those “red sky in the morning shepherds warning” sunrises .... and
Sunrise time.
there was a touch of frost in the air.  Unfortunately the Western sky is grey and beginning to move over;   we’ll most likely get rain later.

I’m going to Kinneuchar Kirk for the Remembrance Service... and perhaps to the Elie war Memorial Service .... if it isn’t raining by then.    Must ‘go’ ‘ever so slight flap on’ this morning!
21.00    The “red sky in the morning, shepherds warning” at sunrise was verrrrry accurate:   it began to rain when we were at the Kilconquhar War Memorial, and it has been ‘dreich’ ever since.    The best part of the day was at sunrise time!   The weather is forecast to ‘improve’ overnight, and we
KIlconquhar Church 
should have ‘bright spells’ tomorrow.    
The Remembrance service at Kilconquhar was very well attended, as was the short wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial.     After Kilconquhar, my intention was to go down to the Elie War Memorial ceremony and get a few photos, but it was raining by then so I missed Elie.    Jimmy went to Elie, then came along to Ivy for a cuppa, where we caught the end of the Remembrance Ceremony at the Cenotaph.

There has been a 7.8 earthquake near not far from Christchurch in South Island (NZ):  ‘M’ felt it in Otaki, and said it was the worst earthquake she has experienced, because it went on for three minutes.   That would have a frightening experience in the middle
KIlconquhar War Memorial ceremony
of the night.    The folks in Kaikoura have been warned to expect a tsunami ... and Kaikoura is low lying so it wouldn’t take a huge wave to create havoc there.     We’re lucky with our miniscule 0.9 earthquakes!    I’ve been looking at the GeoNet earthquake site for New Zealand, and the whole country rattles with earthquakes .... at different times luckily;   and most of them are ‘light’.

Welll I’m starting a ‘new’ bedtime book tonight;  I have a suspicion that I may be starting it soon!     Today’s weather has not been the most inspirational, but, as I said earlier, it is supposed to be better tomorrow.

P
Kilconquhar War memorial
hotographs : Top – the best part of today ... sunrise time, Next – Kilconquhar Church this morning, Next – Kenneth, pays tribute to the fallen heroes of the locality, after laying the EKC wreath, at the Kilconquhar War Memorial, and Bottom – The Kilconquhar War Memorial after the ceremony.  

Tribute to the fallen

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