Gorgeous morning ....
18th
July 2017 (Tuesday)
..... 08.30 We have a lovely morning; bright, sunny and warm .... summer! There’s very little wind, so I imagine the
sea will be flat
calm; I see on the weather cams that the Firth (of
Forth) is like a looking glass. I don’t
know what our ‘plan’ is for today but I need to go to JRD’s for some ‘bits and
bobs’ .... and.. they have a coffee shop.
20.00 Hey ... I could get to like summer again! Today was like one of those days we had when I was a bairn; of course summer was longer than ‘a few sunny days’ way back then; at least that’s how I remember them. Our ‘modern’ summers are tantalizing... a few brilliant sunny days... then rain. Bring back the ‘good old days’.
Photographs
: Top - ‘Backhill of Inkhorn’, Middle
and Bottom – Collieston Harbour beach.
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| Backhill of Inkhorn. |
20.00 Hey ... I could get to like summer again! Today was like one of those days we had when I was a bairn; of course summer was longer than ‘a few sunny days’ way back then; at least that’s how I remember them. Our ‘modern’ summers are tantalizing... a few brilliant sunny days... then rain. Bring back the ‘good old days’.
It
has a braw day; and we went down to
Collieston beach/harbour (near Peterhead) to enjoy the weather. I had been down to “JRD’S” in Ellon, in the
morning, and got everything I require bar one item, which I’ll get in B n Q’s. Anyway back to Collieston: Collieston was a busy fishing village at one
time, but is now a ‘playground’; as are
most of the redundant fishing harbours round the coast of the UK. I didn’t
see a shop .... only a place selling ice cream etc. called the “Smuggler’s Cone”.....
a couple of centuries ago smuggling was rife along this coast.... and it
wasn’t
ice cream they were bringing in.
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| Collieston harbour |
After
we got back from Collieston I had to have ‘50’ .... walking around Collieston
is hard work, involving a few short, and sometimes steep, climbs. On the way home we stopped at Tesco’s.... to
buy ice cream! The ‘Troops’ did the
shopping ... I sat in the car, like an auld dog, with the windows wide open.
Tomorrow
we have a change of wind direction ... and a change of weather: back to ‘unsettled’. Just when I was reminiscing about the
summers of yesteryear ... and thinking we might be settling into a warm spell. I have ‘nae plan’ for tomorrow; it all depends on the weather, .... and
what
the ‘troops’ fancy doing.
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| Collieston harbour. |
Magpies
are recovering from the persecution of the last 150 years or so; there are two young ones in the garden (“Backhill
of Inkhorn”), and the parents have started on a second brood. Magpies are bonnie enough birds but they ain’t
that popular: i mean naebody eats them!
