Coffee Morning ....
17th
June 2017 (Saturday)
..... 09.00 It’s one of those ‘get up
and go’ mornings; and I’m feeling very frisky after a really
good night’s sleep. I haven’t been
anywhere yet but I will have a quick walk down to the beach before the Episcopal Kirk Coffee morning.
14.30 Oh dearie me.... it’s 24c in Ivy
garden; this is ‘mauchless’ temperatures. I
was working in the garden but decided to have a siesta until the heat of the day passes. Of course this is abnormal weather for ‘Bonnie Scotland’ .... we’re more used to cold fronts and rain..... but, we’ll manage to cope I’m sure. In fact we could be doing with a few weeks
of this; I know that could adapt to a
siesta life style nae bother; I have my
sunhat!
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| Ann, with Cousin David's daughters. |
21.00 It has been a gorgeous, ‘bright, sunny and
hot’ day ... and I think it is to be ‘bright and sunny’ again tomorrow, but not
as hot: both ‘the sunhat’, and sun cream,
are back in use.
First
thing this morning Jimmy had to go along to Leven to get some clothes for
Chris; we were in Leven before 09.00,
and back at the East Neuk Trinity Kirk Hall, in time for the Coffee Morning. From the ‘CM’ we went down to the Sailing
Club to watch the activities around the harbour.
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| Cousin John with lovely Elma.... his wife. |
When
the sun was at its hottest in the afternoon, I went inside and decided to make
a crumble with the rhubarb I bought at the Coffee Morning. First I downloaded a ‘crumble’ recipe,
checked that I had all the ingredients, which I had, then got started. After I had mixed everything I began to
think that there was an awfie lot o’ ‘stuff’ to go into the medium casserole
dish .... big one it had to be; and it
was level to the top. It was about this
time in the proceedings that I decided to check the recipe again and found out
it was for 12 servings. Anyhow I bunged
the dish into the oven, and 45 minutes later brought it out, looking highly
edible, .... and it is; it tastes
delicious. I hope rhubarb crumble is suitable
for freezing.
Today
was HM The Queen’s ‘Official Birthday’ and the ‘Birthday Honours List’. Today’s list has two Elie and Earlsferry
residents on it: Robert (“Bob”) Mitchell, Emeritus Curator at St
Andrews Botanical Gardens, who got the MBE for services to Horticulture and Horticultural
education; and Mrs Denise Burgin, Sessional Supervisor for Parentline
Scotland who was awarded the BEM. Congratulations to
both... and I know that
the citation does not take into account all the ‘other stuff’ they do, both in
the local Community, ..... and further afield.
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| Busy Elie beach this lunchtime. |
I
don’t have a ‘plan’ for tomorrow; I
still have this annoying cough, but the bouts of coughing are slowly becoming
shorter. Last night I slept from 22.00
through to 05.30, and finally extricated myself from bed at 06.50. Another good night’s sleep and I should
have recovered, from both the virus (or whatever it was) and the driving
yesterday.
Photographs
: Top – second cousins once removed, Middle – John and Elma, and Bottom – busy Elie
beach.
