Overcast and colder .....
5th
February 2017 (Sunday)
.... 10.00 It is definitely colder
this morning; I know this because I
went out for an early morning walk. It
is a nice morning for walking, even though it is overcast and grey. “London Road” was busy,
as ever,....the
whole of the Southeast will be ‘busy’, and the nearer to London you are the
busier it will be.... with cars... and a few dog walkers! Nae beach to walk the dog along... that
said, town dogs won’t be bothered with overgrown ‘tae nails’!
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| Kaikoura beach New Zealand. |
22.30 There has been a big temperature drop
today; it feels more wintry again. I have to say I’m happy enough with the
way our winter is creepin’ past..... Spring is ‘just round the corner’.
Apart
from going to the “Buxted Inn” for lunch, this has been a quiet, restful, day. The original Buxted village was close by
Buxted Manor, and, like Balclevie back home, was removed to suit the local
landowner, Lord Liverpool, who wanted to ‘improve’ the’ park lands around the
‘manor. Only the church, St Margaret’s,
“stood staunin’, in the middle o’ nae where”, reminds us that there was once a
village around it!.... and a nice church
it is. However the village was only
moved, ‘lock stock and barrel’ a mile ‘doon the road’; unlike Balclevie which was simply ‘removed’.
The
“Buxted Inn” is a nice Hotel, and was busy at lunchtime: the food is excellent, and the staff
friendly: oh... and the their Lemon
Meringue Pie is the best I’ve ever tasted.
We got back to “No1” in time to watch
Italy v Wales in the Six Nations:
Wales won 33 – 7.
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| Typical New Zealand highway. |
My
‘plan for tomorrow is to have my haircut;
if the weather is amenable. I’m
not keen on this temperature drop. I
looked up the ten day forecast for Fife, and the temperature is going to be
really cold up there .... frosty. Of
course longer range forecasts can be wrong;
so can short range ones.
Michael
and I have been watching a programme all about a strange object that was
brought up from a ship, wrecked 2000 years ago off Greece. The object thought to have been invented by
Archimedes, turned out to be a ‘computer’ that recorded the movement of the
moon, and the five, then known planets..... all handmade, from brass. After years of research a modern, working replica of the instrument now exists. Brilliant programme!
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| Colin and Sue in their 'wildlife garden'. |
Photographs
: all three taken in New Zealand two
years ago. Top – Kaikoura beach, Middle
– Typical New Zealand road, and Bottom –
Colin and Sue’s ‘wild life garden’.
