Absolutely gorgeous day .....
4th
December 2016 (Sunday)
... 09.30 ‘Today’ looks like being a ‘bright
and sunny’ day, even though it is mostly overcast, and chilly, just now. The sun is busy burning orf the clouds.
My morning began at 08.15 when I extricated
myself from a nice warm bed.... to
bumble my way along a cold lobby and have a
hot shower. Before the heating fires
up, Ivy cottage is like living in a sauna.
I feel refreshed. Since then I’ve
had breakfast (one and a half biscuits of Shredded Wheat = 168 calories) and
done some ironing. In between the shower
and breakfast time I got dressed. The immediate
‘plan’ is to fill Sooper Buggy with fuel:
then have a cuppa when I get back to Ivy.
21.00 ‘Today’ has been another absolutely gorgeous day considering the time of year: the only thing wrong is that daylight time is too short. Anyway we’ve had a bonnie ‘sunny and warm’ day, and, if the weather forecasters have got it right, it’s to become even warmer by the middle of the week.
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| Elie from the Cockstail rocks. |
21.00 ‘Today’ has been another absolutely gorgeous day considering the time of year: the only thing wrong is that daylight time is too short. Anyway we’ve had a bonnie ‘sunny and warm’ day, and, if the weather forecasters have got it right, it’s to become even warmer by the middle of the week.
I’ve
had a quiet day, which began with a run up to Colinsburgh to fill up the
car. When I stopped at the Robin Gray’s
junction I looked right and spotted something
that looked like a statue, on the north side of the road, about 200 metres East
of Robin Gray’s cottage. I made my
mind up to come back after fueling up to see what it was: which is “iggzactly” what I did. When I got alongside the ‘statue’,.... it turned out to
be a daud o’ polythene stuck in a tree. I ‘floored the pedal’ and had “Sooper Buggy”
flying along the Colinsburgh Straight, we must have hit 40 mph at least...
before,
ambling home via Abercrombie and St
Monans.
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| Part of the base of the Pilgrim's Pier, Earlsferry. |
Having
had my ‘adrenaline' fix’ for the day thundering along the Colinsburgh straight, I
decided to relax by going down to the beach;
only to find it mobbed. That may be a slight exaggeration but there
was at least eight other folk on the beach, which is good. The villages are definitely busier than
they used to be at this time of year.
The
baseline of the Pilgrims Pier is showing well just now; how visible it is depends on the movement of
the sand and seaweed. It’s sad to think
that the Pilgrim’s Pier, and the Swilcan Brig at St Andrews are the same age....
and yet very few people know about the pier.
Perhaps we
should have the Pilgrim’s Pier rebuilt to become a tourist attraction....
and a useful wee pier. I measured it
as being 45 metres long by a metre wide, but it could be longer, as some of it
may be buried under sand at the landward end.
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| Part of Earlsferry High street. |
There’s
no ‘plan’ for tomorrow; but I think
Jimmy mentioned taking his car through the car wash at Leven; followed
by a cuppa in Sainsbury’s I imagine.
Photographs
: Top – Elie from the Cockstail Rocks, Middle – the landward end of the ‘Pilgrim’s
Pier, and Bottom – part of Earlsferry High street.
