West wind ....
1st
July 2017 (Saturday)
.... 08.30 I am feeling positive about
the weather today, so much so that I have a washing on the line! We
have ‘overcast and dry’ just
now, but sunny spells are forecast.... and ....
this is the good bit, the wind is from
the Southwest; a good forecast for the ‘Balcarres
Walk’. I’m taking the car up to North Lodge (the Deil’s
Lodge) and will have a walk around that area until the ‘walkers’ appear.
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| EKC Walk halfway mark ... the Deil's Lodge. |
20.00 The weather stayed ‘fair’, in fact it was
perfect, for the 30 + ‘walkers’ who went on ‘EKC Balcarres Walk and
Feast’. It was good to have walkers
from the other churches in the ‘cluster’...and everyone ‘mixed in’, with plenty
of happy chatting.
When
the ‘walkers’ appeared at the Deil’s lodge I donned the high visibility jacket to
let motorists know that something was going on up ahead. The jacket did the trick with most
motorists slowing down as soon as the saw it:
‘a white ‘van’ driver being the exception. I had a walk around the ‘Deil’s Lodge area’,
checked, and topped up, the tyre pressures of the car, then went down to
Colinsburgh to take a few photos of the ‘troops’ arriving, hungry and well
ready, for the ‘feast’; even ‘The Boy’,
who hadn’t
done much ‘walking’ was ready
for food. I had Armenian Lentil soup,
a mix of sandwiches .... + two pieces (naughty boy) of Lemon drizzle cake!
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| 100 metres to go. |
The
villages are busy tonight ... it’s the start of the ‘Edinburgh Holidays’.....
so I don’t feel ‘lonely’, now that I have ‘background’ noise going on. When the villages are ‘empty’ the lack of
noise can be ... well ... ‘deafening’. I managed to get the car ‘moored up’ in Ferry
Wynd, which was a surprise; for the
next six weeks, finding a ‘mooring’ place can be hard.
Tomorrow
is forecast to be ‘bright with decent spells of sunshine’; could this be the start of ‘summer’? I have ‘nae plans’: I had intended going along to Kirkcaldy to
get a photo of HMS Queen Elizabeth, but ‘she’ is tearing about off Crail... she
has been doing 23.6 knots (27 mph)... fast for a boat that size; ‘her’ maximum speed is given as 25 knots
(28.7 mph). Oh .... ‘she’ has reached 26.3
(30.26 mph)... that’s the
fastest I have seen ‘her’ do... that’s almost as fast
as I have seen some vehicles do in our 20 mph zones.
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| A quiet corner of Balcarres. |
Photographs
: Top – halfway mark ... the Deil’s Lodge gate, , Middle - 100 metres to go,
and Bottom – a quiet corner of Balcarres Estate.
