21st
October 2017 (Saturday)
.... We have a brisk south-easterly breeze so it was colder down on the beach
this morning.... and it is mostly overcast.
The sun
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| Naughty threatening cloud over the Royal Burgh. |
should break through, but I don’t think we’re going to have an Indian
Summer kind of day like we had yesterday... having said that,....in spite of
the cold wind the beach was busy with early dog walkers, including Elaine ....
but, no joggers.
20.00 It has been a mixed, but busy enough, day
for me; I was in a baking mood after
breakfast, and did a double batch o’ Wholemeal scones. This time I pranged them with that roond
thing to make well... roond scones .... they turned out fine; but I prefer the big round cut into six
triangles. They, the roond ones, taste the
same but for some reason they look like they should be triangles! Jimmy appeared about three minutes after
the second batch came out so we had one with a cuppa. After Jimmy left, and before lunch time, I
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| The 'Royal Burgh' from the second green. |
mopped the kitchen, bathroom and lobby floors .... there was a reasonable
drying wind, easterly, so the floors dried fairly rapidly; but the kitchen etc was freezin’ when I went
to make myself a bite to eat.
The
work mode had worn off by the time I woke .... er I’d eaten; so I went for a daunder up to the Pony
Field. It began to spit rain; this
encouraged me to move faster, and shorten the walk. By the time I was back at the third green
the sun had broken through! It has
been a mixed up sort of day all round.
‘Olympic
Leopard’ (our tanker) has stopped, off Capetown ... probably run out of
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| The sun breaks through ... at the end of my walk! |
cornflakes. AH Varazze (Tug) remains docked in Valetta,
and Atlantic Kestrel (Tug) is bumbling along, off the coast of Algeria... on
her way to Aberdeen.
Our
weather should be better tomorrow .... for a start the wind is going to be from
the West, that’s bound to be an improvement; ‘ra morra’ is forecast to be
breezy, and overcast with bright spells later.
Photographs
: Top – the fourth fairway, Middle – Earlsferry from the second green, and Bottom
– the sun breaks through as I get back to Ivy.
