Elie (and Earlsferry) Scarecrow Festival ... Day 2 ....
29th
April 2017 (Saturday) 08.30
It’s ‘overcast and dry’, with the sun forecast to break through later in
the morning.... there is a breeze, from the Southeast.
It is cool
just now, but if the wind strengthens it will be cold, with that wind
direction. My ‘plan’ is to go out on
the bike, to photograph the ‘scarecrows’.... and I’ll be ‘wrapped up’. ‘Slight flap on’,.... I forgot to ‘fire up’
the kettle.
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| "The Dug". |
20.30 I have covered a few miles on the bike
searching out ‘scarecrows’ today; including my biking out to Ardross into a
southeast wind. Coming back was easy. That
said I did the Ardross trip when the wind was at its quietest, and therefore
warmest! It turned colder later in the
afternoon; by which time I was
entrenched in Ivy with a hot cuppa.... ‘scarecrow mission’ nigh on completed. Although I had my phone in my pocket I didn’t
switch it onto ‘tracker’, so I don’t
know the total distance travelled.
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| "Look out - Bobby's about!" |
When
I went out at 09.30 I thought I’d be the
first ‘tourist’ on the road, but not so... there were a few family groups
making an early start. My morning
mission ended when I saw Jimmy heading for Ivy... on the way home I met Myra
who was making for the Harbour House, ... by this time the streets were busy.
After
a morning cuppa Jimmy set orf for the harbour, and I went along to the
Pavilion. On my travels I met Brian
twice; the first time was as I was
leaving Ivy.... he was looking for Moira and Morven; the second time was at the Pavilion where he
found Moira and Morven ... oh and ‘me’. I ended my morning ‘session’ down at the Sailing
Club with Jimmy, Steve and Gordon, .... chatted about scarecrows for a while
then had a bacon roll for
lunch. I
left the Sailing Club to ‘do’ the Wadeslea area, and Ardross Farm Shop.... and
was back home in Ivy about 14.30, after an enjoyable ‘day’ chatting to loads of
friends. Actually I might do it all again tomorrow....
I like talking to people.
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| "Beauty and The Beast" |
Tomorrow
if forecast to be much the same as today... cloudy with spells of sunshine,
but, ... it is going to be windier, from the East, so it will feel colder. I’m
hoping to get out on the bike again .... though I’m not keen on biking in East
winds: East winds dry the delicate skin. The answer would be to use sun cream I
guess ... even when it isn’t sunny.
Photographs
: Top – “The Dug”, Middle – “Look out –
Bobby’s about!” and Bottom – “Tale as Old as Time” ... Beauty and The Beast.
