Pittenweem Coffee Morning....
30th
September 2017 (Saturday)
.... 08.00 ‘Transocean
Prospect’ passed through the Strait of Gibraltar overnight and is now in the Mediterranean
Sea,
being towed along at 5.9 knots, on the last lap of her journey to the
breakers yard in Aliaga, Turkey. You
will be happy to know this.... and even happier, and even excited, to know that, just to
keep my Geography up to scratch, I am also ‘following’ a giant crude oil tanker,
“Olympic Leopard” that left Hound Point last night .... ‘she’ is on her way to
Ningbo in China; and is now in the
shipping lane off the North East coast of England.
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| Earlsferry from the quarry. |
We
have a lovely morning; a nice morning
for a daunder; which I plan to do after
breakfast!
19.30 This has been a lovely day .... mostly
sunny, but beautiful clouds built up in the afternoon, with loads of heavy
looking showers passing along the ‘Sooth side’. We were lucky and only caught the edge of
one shower, and that only gave us a few spits and spots .... and, an
abbreviated rainbow.
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| Pittenweem Coffee Morning. |
With
the weather being nice I’ve had three walks;
the Pony Field in the morning, a Coffee Morning in Pittenweem followed
by a walk round the harbour, and finally ... a wander down to the beach later
in the afternoon. The beach was
busy; with it being half tide there was
a lot of beach ..., and folk were enjoying it.
There was a wedding today, and the happy couple went up to Chapel Green
to have their photo taken. I know this
because I saw the vintage Rolls Royce (open top) go up the Ferry. Unfortunately I was just leaving Ivy when I
saw it; so missed out on a brilliant
photo opportunity. I’d have liked a
photo of the bride and groom, in the car, going up the High Street.
Jimmy
and I went along to Pittenweem to a Coffee Morning being held to raise funds
for a Memorial to the numerous Pittenweem fishermen lost over the years. There was an interesting exhibition of ‘Old
Pittenweem’; postcards, paintings, and other memorabilia. We spent an interesting three quarters of
an hour at the ‘CM’, before going down to the harbour for an ice cream.
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| Pittenweem Harbour |
The
weather forecast for tomorrow is not thrilling ... windy and wet weather
arriving at some point in the day. I
shall take a look out at 06.00 then probably go back to bed and have a good,
old fashioned, ‘lie in’. The plan, if
it is ‘et and windy, is to bake some scones... and cook ‘mince’ for freezing.
Photographs
: Top – Earlsferry from the quarry, Middle – Pittenweem Church Hall ... Coffee
Morning, and Bottom - Pittenweem
harbour.
