10th
July 2017 (Monday)
... 08.30 I’m ‘bothered’ this
morning: I have lost a rather large, grey, flat-topped boat...
last seen on AIS moored at Invergordon!
Probably someone has laid their mug of coffee on top of the AIS ‘button’
and switched
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| Scotch Mist - St Monans. |
it orf! That said .... this
is the kind of day she’d (HMS Queen Elizabeth) sneak back into the Firth. Meanwhile the “Albatross” (with attached oil
rig) is in the English Channel, bumbling along off Hastings. Having negotiated the ‘skinny’ bit (of the
Channel) overnight, the crew are relaxing, in temperatures of around 24c, with
a nice westerly breeze to cool them orf.
We are not: Languishing in
sunshine with a cool Westerly breeze i.e. .... on no; we have a grey day, a cold North Easterly breeze... and occasional
spits and spots o’ rain! Yep ... it’s
summertime!
21.00 It hasn’t been a ‘bonnie’ day, but the ‘Scotch
Mist’ cleared away, and we ended up with ‘overcast and dry’... and a nice
enough evening. Jimmy band I went
along to the ‘Nearly New Shop’ in St Monans;
Jimmy bought ‘big stuff ‘ .... I bought 3 books. There was a lot of ‘stuff’ to look at ....
the Hall, sort of, reminded me of Ivy ...
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| Rugby coaching - Ferry beach. |
only tidier. Jimmy is going back to St Monans again
tomorrow,.... I will go along to Leven
to do some shopping.
With
this being a rest day (from ‘le Tour) I
have been sorting out my early back up CD’s/DVD’s. The CD’s are a bit ‘iffy’ ... in the early
days (2003 +) I didn’t have a DVD writer in 2003, so backed up onto CD’s and my current DVD
reader is perhaps too ‘modern’ for CD’s.
Nonetheless I am managing to get most of them transferred onto external
hard drives... I’ll then back them onto DVD’s.
‘The Tour’ is ‘on’ again tomorrow with Stage 10 from Periguex to –
Bergerac, a distance of 178 kilometres,... with a couple of Grade 4
climbs. I feel a tiredness coming on already!
The
weather forecasters are giving us some ‘short sunny spells’ tomorrow.... I’d
better
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| Bob (on the bike) beetling though Williams-burgh. |
look out the sun cream .... and the shorts! The wind is going to be from the east, so
it’s unlikely to be sweltering hot.
Photographs
: Top – ‘Scotch Mist’ on the car windscreen ... Station Road St Monans, Middle –
the evening was bonnie enough to have
some rugby coaching on the Ferry beach, and, Bottom – you don’t need to watch the Tour to see fast
cycling ... this is Bob beetling his way through Williams-burgh this evening!
