20th
March 2017 (Monday)
.... 07.00 I got ‘up’ to go for a
pre-breakfast walk, only to discover a heavy rain shower rattling over. I thought ...
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| KIncraig Cliffs, Earlsferry |
“Albert, my boy this is not
good”. I’ll go walking’ after breakfast ... when
there is less dampness around.... at the moment it looks like we could have
rain showers, of the heavy variety, for the next hour or so.
21.00
..... The ‘East Neuk’ did catch a few heavy showers over the day, but the intervals
in between them were decent, so I was able to do things; with today being ‘International Happiness Day’ being able to do
things made me happy. My state of ‘being
happy’ began when I went out for my morning walk; I did ‘the Chapel Green’ walk, which meant I
could keep an eye out for approaching showers, and take evasive action to avoid
them; and get back to Ivy fast. As it was I caught up with Jimmy up
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| Pittenweem |
at
Chapel Green: Jimmy ‘moors up’ the car
at the Chapel Green turning point, which was lucky, as we arrived at the car,
just as another heavy shower rattled over.
At Ivy, over a morning cuppa, we formulated a ‘plan’ for the afternoon: we’d go to the Skeith Centre in Anstruther
to get some hearing aid batteries for Jimmy;
and visit Pittenweem and at Monans harbours on the way home.
When
Jimmy went off to “No 10” I decided that I’d get the ladder out and make a
start of the front of Ivy: I’d clean out
the rhones. Last year I wasn’t able to
climb the ladder, and it was with some trepidation that I finally set foot on
the bottom rung of it, the ladder, this year! I
needn’t have worried (and I had been worrying) as I was able to climb up and
down ‘nae bother’; this means that I’ll
be able to paint Ivy; a big relief to
me. I had been wondering if my ladder
climbing days were over; but they aren’t
and I’m looking forward to painting Ivy in May... when the weather is,
hopefully, mair settled.
The
afternoon was spent as per ‘plan’... Anstruther, to get the hearing aids: then
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| St Monans |
Pittenweem and St Monans Harbours for a
browse. Pittenweem Harbour was busy,
and blowy. The ‘Sweetie Shop’ was open
so we had an ice cream, and bought some
old fashioned ‘sweeties’, before going to St Monans where we caught up with Ian
and Sam.
For
me ‘today’ has been a ‘happy day’, even
though my legs muscles are feeling stiff after the ladder climbing!
Photographs
: Top – Kincraig cliffs, Earlsferry, Middle – Pittenweem Harbour, and Bottom – St
Monans.
