Hmmmm ... it was a short summer
25th
July 2017 (Tuesday) 08.30 .... The villages were quiet when I went
out this morning.... at 05.45 on the bike.
I’ve done the whole length from Chapel
Green to the end of Elie Pier and
all my usual stopping places in between.
Primrose was down at the harbour walking the dog, and a couple of blokes
taking their speedboat out to deep water moorings; and seven Eider duck paddling their way from
the harbour over to the Cockstail Rocks. .
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| Elie Harbour. |
It’s
overcast and there’s a cool easterly breeze, but the ‘auld place’ looks bonnie
just the same.
21.30 It has been ‘drab’ weather today; until late in the afternoon, when it brightened up. I drove Jimmy up to St Andrews in the
morning, and drove through heavy ‘Scotch Mist’ at Largoward. Jimmy needed food from the ‘Bargain Store’
in Leven so we went straight to Leven after the Hospital. By this time it was raining; a ‘dreich’
day. Evening time has been the best
part of today as far as the weather goes.
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| Walking the dog .... Elie style! |
The
ironing I was going to do tomorrow, has been done .... it was an ironing kind
of afternoon. Now the thing is; what am I going to do tomorrow, when the
rain that has been forecast arrives?
HMS
Queen Elizabeth is still testing up in the Cromarty Firth; I should think she might come into the Firth
of Forth when she is finished; before she departs for Portsmouth. I still can’t bring up “Albatross” (with
oil rig) on AIS .... she should be entering the Gulf of Mexico soon.
Jimmy
and I were one short for our weekly Tuesday ‘discussion evening’, Jim and
Myra must be on holiday, because
they haven’t been seen for a few days ... and neither has the ‘Royal’ car been
seen, poodling it’s was through the villages.
I must remember to tell Jim that I saw a Fritillary butterfly up at
Chapel Green yesterday; this is the
first ‘Royal’ one .... Jim and I have seen, and photographed them out at Ruddon’s
Point.
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| Elie. |
I
don’t think that I will be ‘up and about’ at the crack o’ dawn tomorrow
morning... in fact, I suspect that a ‘sleep in’ might be in order. Although the rain isn’t forecast to arrive
until 07.11, it will be windy and overcast, .... once again evening time will
be the best part of ‘the day’.
Photographs
: Top – Elie Harbour, Middle – this is dog walking Elie style, and Bottom –
Elie Harbour.
