Not a day to be a grouse ....
12th
August 2017 (Saturday)
.... 06.30 Mmmmm ... not only is it bleak looking... it is bleak; in fact very bleak ... and the wind is from the North because the
rain, aye it’s raining, is hitting the kitchen window: not a morning for getting ‘up and out’ early. This rain is due to clear away by
08.03; until then I will eat stuff, think,
and have a few cuppas.
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| Visitors admiring our villages. |
The
is the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ ....a day when grouse would be best advised to keep
their ‘landing gear’ firmly attached to Mother Earth .... which is why the
shooters employ beaters. It doesn’t
take much skill to be a ‘hunter gatherer’ nowadays.
22.30 It
has been a strange old day; warm and
sunny after the rain cleared away, but it clouded over again by evening time, with
some bonnie clouds I might add; some of
which gave us spits and spots of rain. I
was intending to try and get a photo of the Perseids meteor shower tonight, but
.... unless the clouds make a rapid ‘exit stage left’ there’s unlikely to be
any meteors seen tonight.
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| The beach they were admiring. |
I
went out on the bike after lunch time;
just up to Chapel Green to potter around on the rocks. The villages looked braw today .... and it
was warm, and summer-ish, out of the annoying
wind; the beach was busy, and .... so are the villages; I don’t think I’ve ever seen ‘the Ferry’
High Street so crammed full of cars.
Autumn?....
in Bonnie Scotland the word ‘autumn’, this year, signals the end of an
“occasional summer spells” summer, that will soon be forgotten about, with the arrival of, joy of joy; Merganser on the bay, Curlew feeding along
the tides edge, swallows and house martins gathering for their journey to
warmer places..... and harvest time. Harvest
time and the Creamola ‘harvest moons’.... yes, let’s look forward to Autumn
..... the “Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
(John Keats): but, wait we’re in Bonnie
Scotland , and do more of your ‘there’s a nip in the air... it could be frost
tonight’.... than the mellow stuff. Imagine .... we might even have an ‘Indian
summer’. Bring on Autumn, .... the official first
day of Autumn
is the 22nd September .... .... however Mother Nature has already turned ‘on’
her autumn programme ... ‘she’ has nae
time for our human calendar stuff.
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| Bonnie clouds. |
Tomorrow
is forecast to have more sunny spells than today, .... or less cloud....
depends on how you look at it. The odd
shower might drift over later.
Photographs
: Top – Visitors admiring our villages, Middle – the beach the visitors were
admiring, and Bottom – beautiful clouds over Earlsferry.
