25th
November 2017 (Saturday)
.... Mmmmmm .... there is a covering of snow to the West etc, but we only have frost;
and a cold wind. Having said
that, it’s
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| Lovely .... but cold. |
a bonnie morning, and I have been for my beach/Chapel Green walk....
well wrapped up I might add; and well
ready for a hot cuppa when I got back to Ivy. No plans for today.... I have an ironing
to do .... that’s a warm job.
20.30 I’ve had a funny sort of ‘day’.... I couldn’t
get right into anything at all. Perhaps
it’s the weather, but I have felt ‘down’ all day. No... I tell a lie; I decided to dismantle one of the living
room chairs, and, when I was doing that I felt positive.
It’s great what a bit of dismantling can do to the morale. The original plan was to dismantle both
chairs and keep the sofa; I think I might stick to that. Anyway today I dismantled one of the chairs
and ordered a red tartan orthopedic chair to replace the dismantled one. The original ‘plan’ was to get two tartan
chairs; actually I might still do
that. The new chair(s) will be easier
to get out of when I’m old!
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| Frosty Ferry beach |
The
door bell rang when I was in mid dismantle mode; it was Eleanor delivering an invite to the Christingle
Service at Colinsburgh, on the 17th December....
and a ‘Trinity Tribune’ newsletter. I
needed a break, but the living room was somewhat .... er ... untidy? We chatted about ‘kirk things’ ... and did
mention chair dismantling and why it was being done. Ron came to rescue Eleanor. The reason
for taking the chair to bits was, to get it out, and into the car to take to
the recycling place at Pittenweem.
At first I thought it might be a tricky job, however, once you’ve removed the covering and stuffing
(a sharp Stanley knife is the only tool required for that), you are left with
one ugly ‘chair’ frame: remove one side
of said frame, and the rest more or less falls to bits once you’ve given it a
good rattle about. A heavy hammer and
an axe can be useful for this part of the job; there's not much finesse
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| Largo bay. |
required! I was left with three bags of covering/stuffing
and a heap of useless wood and broken springs.... oh ... and a space where the
chair used to be. I hoovered up the mess,
had lunch.... then became ‘down’ again so I went for another walk; following the same route as I’d done in the
morning. It was still cold and windy.
Even
after two walks, and one chair dismantling session, I was ‘down’ so I went to Sainsbury’s
and did a shopping.... and fell in love with the check out lassie. So that was good. However the edge was taken off that love affair when I suddenly
remembered that Scotland were playing Australia; I missed it!
Tomorrow
is forecast to be ‘bright, windy and cold’.
My ‘plan’ is to go to the kirk (Kinneuchar) and have a blether over a
cuppa then go to the Service.
