Windy and cold .... and not just in Korea!
12th
February 2018 (Monday)
.... 09.00 We
have a bonnie morning; but, frosty and windy.... so feeling very cold: as I found out when down on the beach
to
catch the sunrise (07.46).
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| Elie bay. |
This will be another day of staying in and warm
, watching the Olympics, though I might bake a round of scones; that’s always a warm job. Eating freshly made scones, especially on a
cold day, is very agreeable.
20.00 I’m thinking that I may be watching too
much of the Olympics: on the way down to
the beach in the afternoon I was looking for a frozen puddle so that I could
have a go at doing a Triple Salchow.
Luckily I didn’t find one: a
frozen puddle i.e.
We’ve
had a cold day; the fact that there’s been
a brisk wind brought the temperature down by a good few degrees. I
ventured out a couple of times; to the
beach in the morning, and late afternoon.
Both times there were folk on the beach;
like me they
were well wrapped up.
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| Kinneuchar. |
Later
in the morning I took the car for a wee run down to the harbour: not the best of places to go on a cold and
windy day. The harbour area was not
bust; in fact I was the only one
there. From the harbour I went to Kinneuchar
via the Balbuthie Loan road..... stopping once, to take the photograph of
Kinneuchar that I have on the Hutte today.
Back
at Ivy I fired up the television and settled down to watch the Olympics;
snowboarding, moguls, ski jumping, curling.... oh and the figure, and freestyle
skating. No wonder I’ve been feeling
cold all day .... even with the heating ‘on’.
Here is a bit of useless.... er useful information; The Salchow jump was invented by Ulrich
Salchow (Swedish skater) in 1909. I
have loads of other er ... information re
the Winter Olympics. For instance; the Lutz jump is named after its inventor,
Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater, who first
executed it in 1913.
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| Evening sunlight on Williamsburgh. |
I
don’t want to alarm you all but the weather forecast for our ‘neck of the wood’
tomorrow is not good .... cold with a band of rain passing over us, sometime
around the middle of the day. This
means I’ll be watching more Winter Olympics!
