16th
April 2017 (Sunday)
.... 07.30 Welllll... it’s overcast
but dry, and cold in the brisk North westerly wind; a nice enough morning but you have to be
well
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| Rev Iain Hamilton this morning at Elie Harbour. |
wrapped up. I’m ready for the Easter
Service at the harbour; which is held in the lee side of the Sailing Club, but
even then it will be cold. Everyone
will be well ready for the warming breakfast rolls, and cuppa, up at the Kirk
Hall.
20.00 I’d say that today’s ‘Elie Harbour Easter
Service’ was the best one yet; The
Minister, The Rev Iain Hamilton was excellent... and using a potato and golf
ball to get the Easter Message across
was original and brilliant. The
weather was fine, grey but dry, and, it wasn’t too windy. The‘Breakfast, bacon and egg rolls, in the
Church Hall was, as always, very tasty ... and welcome. There was an excellent attendance at both
the
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| Flying Scotsman letting off steam. |
Service, and the Breakfast.... I enjoyed both.
The
rain came on about just as I got back to Ivy;
it was never heavy .... but was wet.
Jimmy came along and we had a ‘morning cuppa’. Jimmy took orf for the Sailing Club, I
decided that, as it was raining, I’d
bake some scones. That took me up to
lunch time.
The
rain cleared away, and Jimmy arrive about the same time; we had an afternoon cuppa, before Jimmy went
off home to see Ian(his son) and I went round Elie Estate on the bike. By this time the sun had broken through,
and we had a lovely afternoon on our hands... apart from the fact that the wind
was now from the Southeast.; and you
know what I think of winds with ‘East’ in them!
Back
at Ivy I found Jimmy ensconced in the Hutte with a ‘Fish Supper’; we shared the
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| Janice. |
supper, which was followed by
another ‘cuppa’. The ‘fish supper’
took care of food for today, in fact food for today was more or less totally
taken care of.... I only had to make my porridge in the morning.... and have
some fruit at lunch time.
Meanwhile,
down in Sussex, Michael and Janice got ‘up’ early to go to the Bluebell Railway
(Sheffield Park) where there was a very important visitor ... the “Flying
Scotsman”! I saw a video clip, on the
BBC News, of ‘her’ making ‘her’ way down
to East Grinstead from York, the other day. The “Flying Scotsman” is down there for a
week.
Photographs
: Top – The Rev Iain Hamilton in action this morning, Next – The “Flying
Scotsman” letting orf steam, Next – Janice and “Flying Scotsman”, and Bottom –
“the Flying
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| Flying Scotsman at Sheffield Park Sussex. Photos courtesy Michael (Lawrie) |
Scotsman”.
