Friendship Lunch .....
12th
April 2017 (Wednesday).....
09.00 “Friendship Lunch Day”. There’s a brisk, cool wind from the
Northwest this morning... a really fresh morning, and a
good one for getting ‘out
and about’; which I’m going to do after
I finish my cuppa. The bike is ready to
‘go’ and I’m feeling ‘fresh and frolicsome’;
I’ll take a flask of coffee with me, and have a’ coffee break’ on the
estate. ‘Flap on’ .... got to ‘top up’ the ‘stern’
tyre.
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| Immature swan taking off ..... |
21.30 It has been a bonnie day and I have been
‘out and about’; I biked into a quiet
corner of Elie estate for a change of scenery. It was actually cold at that time, though
not too bad when sheltered from the wind.
When I got back to Ivy Jimmy was ensconced in the Hutte awaiting his
morning cuppa! We had a cuppa and ate
some biscuits while discussing how hard it is being retired: perpetually having to decide on what to do
next is a stressful situation. Jimmy
went
orf home to get ready to go to the Friendship Lunch; I was already ‘at home’ and did the same ...
got ready to go to the Friendship Lunch.
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| .... the reason for the above. |
The
‘Lunch’ was well attended, and it was good to see Suzanne and Stuart back from
their trip to New Zealand and Australia.
They arrived home on Monday and are beginning to feel the effects of jet
lag. The ‘Boy’s Table’ was ‘full’,
and we managed to contribute to the general noise around the Hall; it is always a happy hour and a half.
I
faced a hard bike home into the wind, and had to have a cuppa up in the Hutte
after all my efforts. I fell
asleep; and had to make afresh cuppa
when I woke up. Jimmy arrived
and we went to Leven because he’s
forgotten to get the soap he likes when we were in Leven yesterday. It passed the afternoon. I bought some more honey because pesticides
company (Bayer’s) is wanting to spray crops with a neonic insecticide that harms
(kills) bees. Without bees, and other
pollinating insects, we’d
starve;
even the Bayer’s shareholders.
And, .... I like honey.
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| Quiet corner of elie Estate. |
Tomorrow’s
weather is forecast to be much the same as today’s .... bright, breezy and
cool. I haven’t a ‘plan’ for
tomorrow; we have the ‘Drop in Cafe’ in
the afternoon which is always something to look forward too. I’ll do a spot of gardening, and a spot of
biking in the morning.
Photographs
: Top – Cygnet (last year) taking off, Middle – the reason for the above
action, and Bottom – a quiet corner of Elie Estate.
