Feeling brighter .....
13th
January 2018 (Saturday)
.... 10.00 we have another uninspiring
morning, grey and cold.... a good morning for staying ‘in’. Most of the UK is under this blanket of
cloud... the exception being all the way up the western coast, where it is
raining. There is one bright spot in all the greyness ..... my throat isn’t sore, and my voice is coming
back.... hmmm .... that’s two (bright spots).
Actually there are three; I’m
also feeling brighter! I’ll have ‘today’ as another rest day, which
should have me, near enough, back to normal by tomorrow.
22.00 I feel better after a couple of days of R
& R, and I’m now well on the road to recovery. In the afternoon we watched a film, of the
Forth Road Bridge being built; by a local,
amateur filmmaker, Jim Hendry, who lived in Edinburgh, where he worked for the
Department of Agriculture. Jim had
decided to film, on his 8mm cine camera,
the work, from beginning to end. After
a few trips to the site, he was invited to become the ‘official’ recorder of
the work, as it happened, and was able to go more or less anywhere on site. One of the most noticeable, and surprising
things about the film is the complete lack of Health and Safety; Jim was everywhere, and even filmed the
setting in place of the catwalk hung between the towers! This was a really interesting film, with
lots of footage of the old ferries etc.
I was working at Carmurie (South Street, Elie) on the day it was opened,
by HM The Queen: the 4th September
1964. There was a heavy haar, which only lifted
briefly at the opening ceremony.
‘JB’
and I are having a quiet ‘nightcap’;
Janice and Michael are away down to ‘The Club’ where there’s a band that
they like playing.
I
am going to be a bit more active tomorrow:
we’re going to “The Blackboy’s Inn” for lunch. After the nightcap I should have a good
nights sleep; not that I have any
problem with that ..... I sleep like a log.
