Nice morning ....
19th
May 2017 (Friday)
.... 10.30 I couldn’t believe my eyes
this morning: I was biking up ‘The
Ferry’ High Street (05.50) and met a hare, (a ‘Royal’
hare of course) contemplating
nibbling Iain’s flower's; when it saw me it poodled its way up to Cadger’s
Wynd and down onto the bents. I saw the hare, presumably
the same one, about half an hour later up on Chapel Green, making its way back
to the golf course.
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| The Black wa' ... Earlsferry. |
It
isn’t as bonnie a ‘day’ as it was yesterday .... there’s a thin layer of cloud making
sunshine weaker. It’s a nice enough
day nonetheless.
I’ve
been out of the bike (early), and managed to do some work on the rhone. Mike (Kryschuk ?) was passing, saw the
problem... went off home and came back with four galvanised brackets; they will eliminate the rust problem.
20.30 Having spent a good part of the morning
working on the rhone, I was glad when Jimmy turned up; I needed a rest. I am slowly beginning to realise that
climbing up ladders is somewhat harder than it once was... and that I need to
work at a slower pace. I want to paint
the front wall of Ivy, and that will involve a fair amount of ladder climbing; oh dear... I’m beginning to feel a slight touch of, ‘the exhausted’
coming on .... it’s the thought of all
this work.
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| Part of 'The Ferry' beach. |
Hey....
the Hutte Coffee isnae that bad, in fact
it was excellent this afternoon: Linda
and John dropped in, and ..... Linda made the coffee. Maggie used to make the coffee and her
coffee was also excellent: I think I
know where the problem lies! Jimmy
arrived just as the coffee was about to be ‘made’ so we all sat up at/in the
Hutte and discussed my engineering skills.
Ah, that reminds me ... my engineering skills?
After Mike had brought the aforementioned
brackets, I remembered buying two rhone brackets a few years ago (when I was
going to fix the rhone), and I never used them. Would you believe it I found them (that is
a big miracle) so I concocted er ... engineered a ‘prototype’ bracket
out of one of them... and I think it might work. So I’ve saved Mike’s brackets .... assuming
that my bracket does the trick; I’ll
find that
out tomorrow ... er .... maybe not;
probably next week. I’ll ‘rest
and recuperate’ over the weekend.
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| Chapel Ness with the Beacon beyond. |
We
have the Guild Coffee Morning tomorrow... I must remember to take a bag so that
I can carry my ‘purchases’ home. The
weather forecast for tomorrow is not of the “remember to use the sun lotion”
kind: rain is supposed to arrive
overnight and poodle its way across us during tomorrow morrrrrrning (bit of
Scottish-ness).... this will get rid of my urge to get ‘up and out’ early... a
sleep in is on the cards methinks.
Photographs
: Top – The ‘Black Wa’, Middle – The
beach, and Bottom – Chapel Ness and the
Beacon.
