Storm "Doris" .....
23rd
February 2017 (Thursday)
.... 09.30 Wellll ....’Storm Doris’
has
arrived. I wouldn’t call the maist
attractive of ‘storms’; she’s dull, windy
and very wet .... we have sleet mixed in with the rain: definitely a day for scoffing Lemon Meringue
Pie!
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| Largo Law had a dusting of snow this morning. |
I’ve been up to Elie for the paper (in the
car; and down to the harbour. It was quiet ....“very quiet” down
at the harbour... ‘Doris’ and I were the only ‘ones’ down there; hardly surprising ‘cos ‘Doris’ isn’t exactly
a lovable kind of ‘girl’: being
bothered with the aforementioned, wind,.... and water! Must ‘go’... slight flap on; got a meringue pie to organise for Jimmy’s
morning cuppa!
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| Elie Harbour. |
20.30 Mmmmmm .... ‘today’ has been drab to say
the least: luckily we had the ‘Drop in
Cafe’ to brighten our afternoon: and, by the time I left the ‘cafe’ the rain
had stopped, the wind had moderated, though still drab, at least it wasn’t
raining so, as per routine after the ‘cafe’, Jimmy and I went down to the
harbour. I wandered around with the
camera, while Jimmy did the sensible thing .... he sat in the car out of the
cold wind. By the time I’d finished my
wandering, we were ready for a cuppa.
I
nearly forgot: with our morning cuppa,
Jimmy and I each had a quarter of the “Lemon Meringue Pie”... only it wasn’t a
Lemon Meringue Pie ... it was a Lemon Cheese Cake: made with Sicilian lemons (that seemed to be
important according to the blurb on the box)! It tasted braw, but, having checked the
number of calories ( er ... numerous;
412 calories per quarter portion
to be ‘iggzact’) we decided to have the other two ‘quarters’ tomorrow!
There’s
a frost warning out for tonight; for
that reason we, presumably, can look
forward to a brighter morning, and day,
tomorrow. I imagine it, the frost,
probably won’t affect us here, at the Centre of the Universe! There was a thin covering of snow on Largo
Law, with ‘proper’ snow further West on the Lomond’s... and Glenrothes: very wintry
looking to be sure.
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| Berwick Law on the south side of the Firth. |
Photographs
: Top – Largo Law from Elie Harbour, Middle – Elie Harbour, and Bottom - Berwick Law (on the South side of the Firth at
small town of “North Berwick.” North
Berwick was the other end of the ferry passage that gave “Earlsferry”, (the “Royal
Burgh” of) its name.
