Grey and damp ....
1st
October 2017 (Sunday)
.... 08.00 Wellll .... Tugs AH Varazze and Atlantic
Kestrel, with Transocean Prospect in tow, are travelling across the Alboran
Sea; the Western most portion of the Mediterranean
Sea. I’d never heard of the Alboran Sea
until Transocean Prospect was being hauled across it. This means that I sailed across the Alboran
Sea in 1958..... I was aboard the troopship ‘Empire Fowey’ at the time; jings, you’re never too old to learn! Meanwhile ‘our’ huge, crude oil, tanker “Olympic
Leopard” (it’s ‘your’ tanker as well as ‘mine’) is bumbling along, and is now in
the skinny part of the Channel ... between Dover and Calais.
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| Clearing sky. |
The
weather? .....Oh ... we have a cold, breezy, wet, Scotch mist morning.... not a
morning for going out. Right now the
wind is from the Southeast, but is forecast to increase in strength and veer to
the Southwest bringing rain with it.
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| After the rain. |
21.00 I suppose you could call today’s weather ‘changeable’
.... because we had a few changes throughout the ‘day’. With the morning being wet Jimmy and I went
to Leven to see if Jimmy could find his favourite porridge cartons. They weren’t on the usual shelf, and haven’t
been for a week .... because the staff had used them to make a display on the
end of an aisle. Jimmy stocked up with
porridge, we then went over to Sainsbury’s garage to top up with fuel... Jimmy’s
car takes diesel, and I have to remember this;
my car is petrol. Being so
close to the Cafe it was only right that we should have a cuppa. The rain was less intense on the way home.
The
r rain eventually petered out in afternoon and I went down to the beach; the rain
may have petered out but it was
being replaced with a freshening wind. I had a pleasant walk along the beach ... which
was surprisingly busy.
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| Sunset time. |
My ‘plan’ for the afternoon was to cook mince
to make some Cottage Pies for freezing. This I did.... and have four ready meals cooling
off, to put into the freezer before I go to bed; I had mince and tautties for my dinner
tonight.
It
is forecast to be windy tomorrow... and it sounds like it already is. It was quite blustery when I was down on the
beach at sunset time.
Tomorrow
we have the ‘flu jab in the afternoon along at the Surgery (Elie); apart from that I have ‘nae plan formulated’.
Photographs
: Top and Middle – the beach this afternoon, and, Bottom – sunset
sky.
