Kite boarder at Elie harbour .... ....
24th
June 2017 (Saturday)
... 08.30 It is ‘bright and very breezy’
this morning, with the chance of some, unwelcome, blustery showers; ‘unwelcome’
because I have a washing on the
line, and, it is ‘St Monans Sea Queen Day’, the oldest ‘Gala Day’, harking back
to the early days of fishing, in the East Neuk coastal villages. There
are shower clouds scampering over as I type;
as long as they scamper over to the North Sea I'm happy.
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| ... and I have washing out! |
10.00 Having been down to the beach I can now
tell you that the wind is from the WNW, F5 -6,
and not warm; also, the showers clouds are beginning to
look serious.
20.00 We didn’t catch any showers locally, but
they could be seen over towards Edinburgh;
my washing is dry and ‘in’.
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| Kite boarder .... Elie. |
Jimmy
and I went along to St Monans to ‘Sea Queen Day’ but it was disappointing; bunting stretching from lamp post to lamp
post, and some banners were the only visible signs down at the harbour. Apparently it was all ‘happening’ in the Town
Hall. The last time we visited the Sea
Queen there were stalls along the Shore Street, with live music and lots of
people. Perhaps the weather forecast
had put the organiser’s off stalls in the street etc; there were loads of people walking around,
probably wondering where the action was.
We didn’t go in to the Town Hall;
there was nowhere to park.
Prior
to going along to St Monans we’d been sitting in the Sailing Club having a mug
of tea and a biscuit; watching a bloke ‘kite
boarding’ across the bay: he was good....
scudding over the waves towards the pier and turning away at the last moment; he
was in complete control of the kite and
board; very entertaining, and impressive. I met, and chatted, to a couple at the end
of the pier who have built a house in the village; of course I gave them the ‘Ferry History
Lesson’..... as usual. Since I ‘lost’ Maggie I talk far too much. Anyway they are a nice couple; I only hope I haven’t ‘put them off’ moving
to the village!
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| Elie harbour. |
Jimmy
came along in the afternoon. We reminisced
about the Waid Academy... the old teachers that we remembered, and who had been
teachers at the Waid when Jimmy was a pupil, and were still there when I was a
pupil. Jimmy ‘left’ the Waid in
1940... I ‘left’ in 1953.
Photographs
: Top – Hmmm... threatening sky over Earlsferry,
Middle and Bottom – ‘Kite boarder’
enjoying himself in Elie Bay. He was
very skilful, .... and entertaining!
