Maggie ....

18th August 2017 (Friday) .... 07.30    It’s hard to believe that, eight years ago on this date, Maggie suddenly departed this life .... to potter around, tidying up

Breezy but bonnie.

and sorting out Heaven.    My unimaginable loss was Heaven’s  gain.    The fact that I am still ‘here’, and enjoying being alive is down to all the love shown by family and friends.... a huge “Thank You” and heaps of ‘love’ to one and all xxxx.   Oh ... and I still get ‘advice’ when sitting on, ‘The Boss’s seat’.... so “Thank You” to ‘The Boss’ who is keeping me ‘nearly right’.    

As forecast we have a miserable morning;   windy and wet, but there are occasional times when the sky shows signs of breaking up, which makes me hope that the sun will break through by lunch time..    But who cares about the weather;   we live in the happiest county in Scotland.... and the over 65’s are the happiest age group.

20.00    The sky did ‘break up’, and,  for a wee while it was pleasant,... however we’ve had some really heavy showers in the afternoon, which had me putting the bike away at 17.00. 

 

Jimmy brought a Crown Estates Salmon Fisheries map, of the local area, along this morning for us to browse.    We spent the rainy bit of the morning browsing .... found  a

St Monans.

place called ‘Scuddie Hill’, and, when the rain had moved away, went up to Colinsburgh for fuel, and to have a look at the aforementioned hill, intrigued as to how it got that name.    In the online Scots Dictionary it means either, “scrubby and poor”, or “somebody wi’ nae claes on”.     I came to the conclusion that it must have been a scrubby piece of ground ....it is now a hump, in a well tended field.... because I can’t imagine  why folk would want to run around, wi’ nae claes on, at the top of a wee hill.    From Scuddie Hill’ we went to St Monans harbour so that Jimmy could cast at eye over whatever Ian (his son), and Sam (his grandson) were doing.    I took some photos because that’s what I do;  we had a ‘busy sky’ today, and I’m happy.   That’s as it should be.... being

Mid Shore, St Monans 

that we live in the happiest county in Bonnie Scotland.

The villages seem to be ‘up to the eyeballs’ with vehicles tonight;  perhaps there’s something ‘on’ tomorrow.

According to the weather forecast for ‘ra morra’.... we are going to have more sunny spells;   with, by now almost mandatory, showers later in the day.

Photographs : Top – Elie Harbour, Middle –  interesting sky over St Monans beach, and Bottom – Mid Shore, St Monans.