14th
June 2017 (Wednesday)
.... 09.00 Once again the UK headline News’ is
catastrophic: this time it’s a tower
block in the Kensington area of London
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| Elie Lighthouse. |
.... the ‘Grenfell
Tower’ .... going up in flames in the middle of the night . It is horrifying to watch the speed at which
the flames spread, trapping people in
the storeys above the source of the fire.
I’m ‘in shock’ just watching this
on the ‘News’ ..... I can’t begin to imagine what it must feel like, to all the
people of Kensington, and London .... to them this is not ‘another News story’,
‘they’ are the ‘News; my thoughts and
prayers are with them.
20.00 I am absolutely shattered tonight; I went up to Elie twice on the bike, and
that must have been too much too soon, while recuperating from ‘the bug’. It will be another early night for ‘The Boy’
tonight. Having said that; we’ve had a bonnie day, with no wind, so,
with the sea being like a ‘mirrah’ loads of reflection photos. I went down to the harbour and wandered about
on the rocks, so I think I have just overdone it today. Tomorrow is going to be a ‘lazy day’ weeding
the garden. Ivy weeds are easy to
pull... I leave them until they have grown tall, so that I don’t have go down
on
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| Elie - from the harbour rocks. |
my knees to pull them. I had a
visit from two Bull Finches yesterday .... they were eating the flower heads off
some kind of weed. I think it was a weed.
Today’s
‘Friendship Lunch’ was the last one before the ‘summer’ break; they start again in September. The ‘Drop in cafe’ breaks for the ‘summer’
at the end of this month: the way
things are going I’ll have to make my own ‘Coffee Mornings’ in The Hutte. Except it will be tea.
“Auntie Johan”, died the other day; she is the last of our ‘Aunties and Uncles’
and was the wife of ‘Uncle Dod’ my Dad’s brother. I
remember Uncle Dod giving me a ‘bar’ on his bike (there was a cushions tied to
the bar, all the way from Birse (Aboyne) to Tarland when I was ... well must
have been about four years old. Everyone
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| Earlsferry from Elie Harbour. |
enjoyed visiting Auntie Johan, (Uncle Dod died a number of years ago) because, not only was she cheery
company, she was an excellent baker of ‘goodies’. Janet and I are going up to the funeral on
Friday... assuming that I am feeling capable of driving that far: all the driving will be in ‘daylight’ at
least.
Photographs
: Top – Elie Lighthouse, Middle – Elie Bay from the harbour rocks, and Bottom –
‘The Royal Burgh’, and Williams-burgh, from Elie harbour.
