Foggy ..... but warmer

29th March 2017 (Wednesday)  .... 08.30     Hmmmmm .... we have a disappointing start to this morning.... damp and grey;   and it’s a Spring tide.   I’d

Elie 

hoped to be down on the beach by now but we have drizzle at this time;  low tide isn’t until 10.15 so it might be bonnier by then.    Having said that it disnae look like it will be!  There is a slightly ‘bigger’ tide tomorrow, but only by a centimetre!   Unfortunately ‘smirr’ of the wind that we have is from the East, bringing ‘stuff’ in from the North sea;   we have a slightly ‘unhappy bunny’ this morning.

21.00     The fog, because that’s what the ‘grey’ was, lasted most of the day;  at times in the morning, when I was walking over the beach to Elie harbour, the sun nearly broke through.... but never quite managed.     I left Ivy at 09.30, by which time the drizzle had stopped and it was pleasantly warm;    the wind being very light.     I had a great walk, a distance of 3.03 kilometres (1.8 miles), all on the beach:   I ambled (erratically) all the way to the harbour (Elie) and back.    I got onto the ‘Elie Bank’, but not the ‘Ferry Bank’ .... I needed wellies for to get across to it.... the ‘Ferry Bank’.    (‘Bank’ refers to the different sand banks).    Low tide is at 10.54 tomorrow morning;   I hope to find my wellies and go out to the ‘Ferry Bank’,  and ‘points West

Donald(in digger) and David 'sorting' the mooring chains.

of’, tomorrow morning.... depending on the weather.   The weather forecast is for ‘slightly better’ than today;   there could be showers, but  we should lose the Easterly wind....the wind is predicted to be South westerly.

Jimmy and I went up to the ‘Colinsburgh Light Lunch’ today .... with good food and a blether guaranteed, it’s always enjoyable.    It was busier today;   in fact it became really busy at the end when a Class from the local Primary School (next door) came in to ask us what toys we played with when we were young.    It was interesting to compare what we did, with the games children play today.    I did ask if they (we had girls at our table) played with skipping ropes etc like the lassies did in my time;  they do play with skipping ropes, but most of their non- physical games are on the computer, whereas we played Ludo, and Snakes and Ladders etc.    The girls knew ‘Snakes and Ladders’ but not Ludo.   This visit from the

The beach.

school children certainly brightened up the ‘day’.

It was raining when we left Colinsburgh Town Hall, so Jimmy and I went to Leven and had a cuppa in Sainsbury’s Cafe.... where we met Tom (Hunter) and had a pleasurable half hour chatting before we, Jimmy and I left, leaving Tom to do his Soduko in peace.

Tomorrow is the ‘Drop in Cafe’ afternoon, so, if the weather is fine in the morning, I’ll have a ‘full’ day. 

Photographs : Top – the sun trying to break through, Middle – Donald and David, sorting out the mooring chains, and Bottom – the beach.