Silly boy ....
3rd
July 2017 (Monday
... 09.30 I am annoyed with myself
this bonnie morrrrrrning! Last night
when I went to bed, HMS Queen Elizabeth was ‘messing
about in the North Sea,
off Aberdeen: I thought to myself “she
will come into the Firth early on Monday” .... and she did. I woke up at 05.00 and didn’t check AIS to
see where she was; if I had I’d have
seen that she was coming into the Firth.
As it was when I eventually got ‘up’ at 06.30 and checked AIS she was
past the ‘villages; however I got a few
photos of ‘her’ making for her moorings off Kirkcaldy/Kinghorn.... and had a
nice walk.
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| HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Firth of Forth. |
14.00 Why is it that road works always seem to
take place at holiday time? The Cupar roundabout at the top of Scoonie
Brae in Leven has ‘works’ going on, controlled by a three way set of traffic
lights. With this being the ‘holiday
season’ the roads are busier than usual
so there was a ‘hold up’.... but I have experienced worse. Jimmy is well stocked up with ‘provisions’
again.... enough for two weeks;
enough to
see him through the duration of the road-works..... maybe!
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| Grangehill, Earlsferry. |
19.30 Once again I’m shattered .... its the ‘Tour
de France’ .... watching them (the cyclists) do the hill climbs fair takes it
oot o’ me... and they haven’t reached the mountains yet! I have another three weeks of ‘suffering’ to
go! I do some work in between ‘watching
sessions’; today I pulled a few more
weeds. I did think of getting the bike
out but couldn’t find my ‘Lycra’s’.
We
had two fledgling Yellow Hammers in the garden today; sadly one of them looks like it is ‘sick’,
and most likely won’t survive. This
is the first Yellow Hammer young I have seen in the garden..... it is strange
that we do have them in the garden;
they are birds of the hedgerows really.
One of our Robin’s, ‘Blobette’,
has been seen twice
today; but so far
nae sign o’ ‘Blob’.
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| Beach huts. |
The
weather is not going to be ‘great’
tomorrow .... on two counts: 1. We could get some rain, and 2. what
wind there is is going to be light, but, unfortunately, from the East. I shall extricate myself from my bed early
and get out before any rain that might come our way.
Photographs
: Top – HMS Queen Elizabeth sneaks into the Firth, Middle – Grangehill,
Earlsferry, and Bottom – Beach huts.
