Happy Tui bird .....
14th
July 2017 (Friday)
.... 09.00 We have a gorgeous morning;
a walking day. I’ve had a daunder
along the beach to get some fresh air.
My next
door neighbour Peter, who was out with the dog, joined me: it was a pleasant change having company, and
.... conversation.
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| Tui bird on NZ flax plant ... in New Zealand. |
I
see that the New Zealand flax is bursting into flower.... I must get some
pictures. It takes a specialist bird,
the ‘Tui’ bird to fertilize the flowers ... it has the long curved beak needed
to get down to the nectar.
Unfortunately we’re “fresh oot” o’ Tui birds in Scotland! I
daresay our bumble bees might have ago.
20.30 Getting older is definitely hard work; today I changed a light ‘bulb’; the one above my bed. Moving the bed was not an option, so this made a
simple job
somewhat trickier. In the
end, a board on top[ of the mattress, then a step thing on top of that, gave me
the height required. It was a wee bit
rocky, kinda like being on a yacht in a F3 breeze, but it got the job
done; with an LED, energy saving, long lasting, ‘bulb’. I bought two LED ‘bulbs’ in Leven this
morning.
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| It's summer time... sand castles on the beach! |
The
‘boy’ that “wisnae gaun tae bike doon” to the Harbour again in the middle of
the day, did just that .... today; without any problems. I had to go along to the Chemist hence my
being out on the bike at that time of day.
Jimmy was in the sailing Club so I joined him, for a cuppa, in “Lorraine’s
Place”. We discussed, with Lorraine
and Tom, the ‘Elie on the Green’ event that take place on the Toll Green
tomorrow. The weather forecast for
tomorrow is; ‘warm
and humid with the chance of light rain at times’.
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| Evening wtime on Elie beach. |
Stage
13 of ‘Le Tour’ was short, hilly, and exciting;
Warren Barguil, a Frenchman, won
the Stage .... on Bastille Day. He’ll
be a popular ‘boy’ in France! Tomorrow’s
Stage, although twice the length of today’s, won’t be as exciting,... though
there is a hill at the end which should cramp the style of the ‘sprinter’s a
bit.
Photographs
: Top – Tui bird feeding on a Flax plant, Middle – at last ... signs of summer
on the beach! And, Bottom – evening walk
time on Elie beach.
