Overcast but dry .... good morning for working
17th
April 2017 (Monday)
..... 08.00 Our weather is, “overcast,
but dry, with the chance of a few showers later” .... not a bad morning for
doing things, even if
it is cool in the Westerly breeze. I’m feeling ‘fresh and playful’ this
morning, but, I have things to do so the ‘playing’ will have to wait. Must
‘go’ ... “slight flap on”; the kettle
will be boiling.
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| Our 'local' Branch of RBS - Rosslyn Street Kirkcaldy. |
I
began by phoning ‘Noble Re-Cycling (Kirkcaldy)’ to see if they were open
today; they were, so I promptly jumped
into ‘Sooper Buggy’ and drove her along to the scrap yard. She was running like a sewing machine, but
there were far too many other
things going wrong so she had to go. There
was an element of sadness about this ‘mission’; ‘Sooper Buggy’ was the last car
that Maggie and I shared. Before I
left Ivy I’d made my mind up to walk, and photograph, my way down to the Bus
Station from the ‘scrappies’, stopping for a cuppa and scone at ‘Reject’s’,
this would help me come to terms with the finality of ‘Sooper Buggy’ being
re-cycled. The thing that amazed me
was .... I got £40 for ‘her’ (Sooper Buggy);
I thought I’d have to pay the Scrap Merchant!
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| Pathhead and Sinclairtown Co-Op entrance. |
The
distance from Noble’s Re-Cycling Depot down to the Bus Station, has been ‘tracked’,
but it hasn’t come up on Facebook yet; I
think it will be about 4 kilometres... my legs felt, and still feel, as if it
was ten! Anyway it was an interesting
walk, and I arrived at the Bus station,
with time to spare before the X60 arrived;
I had another cuppa ....and ate a biscuit; the biscuit was not tasty.
The
journey from Kirkcaldy to Elie went quickly:
Dave (Leitch) got on the bus at Leven and we chatted: mostly about how lucky Joyce was! The Bowling Green opens on Saturday, but I’m
wondering if I should join... my hand, and now my other knee are not ‘bowling’
friendly at all.
Back
at Ivy I transferred the car insurance, to take effect immediately, then had a ‘lit
bite’ before wandering along to Jimmy’s to pick up the Fiesta. Jimmy and I then took ‘her’ up to
Colinsburgh for air, and ‘food’. At
first I couldn’t use my tyre inflator generator gadget; the cigarette lighter thing that it (the
inflator) plugs into had been adapted.... however Jimmy fiddled about and a
plastic bit fell out of the cigarette lighter and my inflator now plugs in ...
and works. Air used to be free at
garages .... now it costs a £1.
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| Recorder thingy. |
I
am one ‘tired ‘boy’ tonight... my eyelids keep falling down over my eyes and
the lights go out: methinks it’s time
for bed!
Photographs
: Top – our local’ Bank Branch .... Rosslyn Street Kirkcaldy, Middle – a recording thing
next door to “Bogart’s”... a Kirkcaldy pub, and Bottom – Pathhead and
Sinclairtown Co-operative Society entrance.
