You couldn't make this up .....
25th
September 2017 (Monday)
... 09.30 this is the day No 267 of this year(2017)
... 163 of which, in Fife, have been ‘rain days’; and the other 104 haven’t all been sunny
days.... only ones without rain! I
must find out if fog
etc. registers
as rain. From those statistics you
will have worked out that we have a miserably dreich start to ‘today’ to add to
the statistics .... not windy... but awfie wet, and it has been for most of the
night by the look of ‘Blob’. The forecast
is for ‘brighter weather’ sometime in the afternoon.
This dreichness is not my
favourite weather .... and definitely not my favourite wind direction! Having said that, Bergen (Norway), where
the cycle race was held, is reckoned to be the wettest city in Europe... with
an average of 250 rainy days per year, and guess what?; they are basking in 14c sunshine today! I’m
feeling frisky in spite of the weather.
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| Hazy afternoon. |
Transocean
Prospect, and her tug friends, are off the Northwest corner of Spain, and
bumbling along at 5.3 knots..... the crews probably enjoying lovely sunshine!
20.30 You couldn’t make this up! I had
an appointment at Queen Margaret Hospital to get my biopsy result; Jimmy came along for the run. We arrived there in loads of time so had a
cuppa and a sandwich in the Cafe, before I ‘booked’ in at the Reception desk. The Receptionist told me how to get to the
Urology Dept; “through those doors,
turn left and walk along to the end of the corridor, where you will find a the
lift; and it’s one floor up!” “No problem” says I. We poodle along to the end of the corridor,
but couldn’t see the lift; then a
lassie came along and asked “are you lost”.
“The Receptionist said that there was a lift along here”. “There it is” says
the lassie, pointing to
the lift, in the corner. Oops ... we
thanked the lassie and went into the lift.
This was one big old lift ... none of the Sainsbury’s “Doors Closing”
.... “Lift going up” etc. This was a
functional lift. As Jimmy said “you
could have a dance in here!” The Receptionist told me that the Urology Dept was 1 floor up so I pressed ‘ 1’. The doors wouldn’t close. I thought ... ‘Mmmmm’, you must have to
close the door by pressing this button’.
Yes... the doors closed. “This
is a smooth moving lift said Jimmy... you can hardly feel in at all... it must
be ‘cos it’s big”. We waited a wee
while then decided that we’d have to open the doors by pressing the ‘Door’
button. Yes the doors opened, and out
we went. After a minute or so of hard ‘looking’
we couldn’t see any signs pointing us to the Urology Dept. Another lassie came along and we asked
her. “Oh ... that’s one floor up” she
said. I said “we’ve done that... I’m sure
the Receptionist said it was one floor up!”.
“Yes” said this lassie, “the Receptionist is correct... it is one floor
up!” “So it’s another floor up I asked
the lassie?” “Well, it is another floor
up... this is the
ground floor!”. Then the penny dropped! No wonder we hadn’t felt the lift moving, it
hadn’t .... and we were still on the ground floor! We went into the lift for the second time,
pressed button ‘2’, the doors closed, we felt the lift going up, it stopped,
the doors opened and there it was .... a sign with ‘Urology Dept’ written all
over it! There’s never a dull moment
when ‘The Boys’ are around.
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| Golfers on the tenth. |
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| Sunset time. |
Oh ... I nearly forgot, my biopsy is absolutely
clear .... I’m free to go back onto my bike... and I’m ‘in love’ with Debra
(Nurse)!
Tomorrow’s
is forecast to be ‘cloudy, dry and warm’ with the chance of some bright spells; good biking weather!
Photographs
: Top – Kincraig cliffs this hazy afternoon (taken when I was waiting on a
group of golfers arriving on the green) Middle – the tenth green with golfers, and
Bottom – sunset time.
