19th
July 2017 (Wednesday)
.... 09.00 Oh dear ... bring back the
warm days: we have a brisk East
wind.... and there are loads of clouds scuttling over,
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| The 'Troops' on Collieston rocks. |
obscuring the sun with
monotonous regularity; so it’s
cool. We haven’t got a ‘plan’ for
today yet; the Troops are still resting
after their efforts yesterday.... but I think we might go ‘inland’, where it
should be warmer.
21.00 Iain and I are going to Peterhead Prison
Museum tomorrow.... so we worked on the car today. I’m looking forward to this outing; having never been to a ‘prison’ museum. The ’Troops’ were at this museum a couple
of weeks ago so it’s only Iain and me tomorrow.
Rain has been mentioned in our weather forecast for tomorrow .... a perfect
day for this mission. Most of the rain
is due to happen overnight, and we should waken to a clearing sky.
We
have had a mostly ‘bright and sunny’ albeit windy, .... it was a good day for
pottering about on the car. Having said
that I am now shattered, and looking forward to my bed .... and book. Working on the car wasn’t hard work
....getting up and down was!
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| Boats hauled up on Slips. |
I’ve
been researching ‘Myrebird’ on the old Ordnance Survey maps. On the older maps (up to 1882) it is a traditional
‘L’ shaped small croft. On maps after
that it is shown as a ‘cottage’ with big garden.... i.e. as it was when we
lived there. This makes me think that
the ‘Myrebird’ that we lived in was built round about the 1890’s. Although it was only cottage of two rooms,
it had loads of cupboards and storage space.... with an outside toilet, and
workshop attached to the East end; the
foundations of which are still
there. I know I said I wouldn’t go back
but I’m interested to see if there is any sign of the croft ... the ‘L’ shaped byre
and stable farm buildings.; so I may go
back one day.
It
looks like the rain is going to arrive soon;
the sky has got that rainy look.
I don’t
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| Myrebird from the Southeast. |
mind overnight rain.... but I have been enjoying the sun, and we
could all do with some more ‘summer’.
Photographs
: Top – ‘The ‘Troops’ on the rocks at Collieston, Middle – boats hauled up
slipways, and Bottom – Myrebird from the South East.... concrete pipe on end is
the well.... and it did have water in it.
When we first moved to ‘Myrebird’ there was an old fashioned hand pump fitted to the top of the well, The wooden structure, attached to the front
of the house, was built in 1946, to bring water, from the well, into the
house.... by way of a modern (then) hand pump. I remember that being built.... and the
excitement of us not having to go to ‘the well’ for water. It was a brilliant place to live; though it doesn’t look much now.
