Easterly gale... so very cold.....
15th
March 2018 (Thursday)
.... 08.30 Oh my word ..... it’s ‘blawin’
a gale’ from the East, so it’s really cold .... and there’s rain forecast for
the afternoon.
When I’m at Tesco’s
(Cupar), to do the shopping .... I’ll have a coffee in their cafe. There’s
also the ‘Drop in Cafe ....which will cheer up the afternoon. Must ‘go’ slight flap on .... going to have
breakfast before taking orf for Cupar. Whatever
you do.... be warm and cosy doing it.
14.00 I had a nice trip up to Cupar, and a pleasant
time in Tesco’s doing the shopping: I
didn’t get a Gruffalo cake, .... most of the Staff I talked too had ever heard
of Gruffalo cakes .... so I decided to forget that plan and go for a normal
cake instead. It had been my intention
to have a coffee in the Tesco Cafe, but I remembered that the ‘Fudge Doughnut
Factory Cafe Complex’ (hereafter FDFCC) was, near enough, next door. The FDFCC was quiet, but I was fortunate to
find Nancy and Douglas (Kinneuchar) in there so had a nice time chatting to
them. Forget beef burgers and aw the rest -- Fudge burgers are, by far ... the best! |
Elie Bay this afternoon. |
The Ivy hatches will be well battened as soon
as I get back, from the Drop in Cafe.
18.00 The Drop
in Cafe was busy today, and we had two birthdays to celebrate, two “Bob’s”, with
cake.... so a good time was had by all.
There was much happy banter, and drinking, of tea and coffee.
Jim,
Myra and I went to have look at the proposals for new housing at both villages,
15 at Earlsferry, and 55, including ‘affordable housing’, small workshop units,
and a care Home, at the east end of Elie.
Most of the folk that I spoke to said either .... “most of the houses
will end up as holiday homes, and empty most of the year”.... or .... “we don’t need any more holiday homes!” Actually we are lucky that many of out 'holiday homes' are used very regularly, and are, in fact, more like 'second homes'. However 'holiday homes' are, without doubt, the main concern. At the exhibition, much was made of trying
to make the villages ‘sustainable’; the
very reason that they
are, ‘unsustainable’, at present, is because of the number
of ‘holiday homes’ already in the villages.
We should also remember that ‘holiday homes’ are not just a local
problem to us, in the east Neuk; it is
happening all over the United Kingdom, especially in beautiful, and desirable,
places ; like Elie and Earlsferry. Therefore the time has perhaps come for a United Kingdom
wide solution to ‘holiday homes’. And,
here arises another problem: are out
politicians likely to do anything about it?
Elie Bay. |
20.00 Happy? .... I’m about our weather forecast for tonight, and tomorrow; wind and rain. This is not good ..... we need sunshine; it will soon be Spring after all. Oh well .... I’ll get stuff done on the computer, that’ll keep me occupied.
I
nearly forgot; there’s a public meeting
in the Ferry Town Hall, on Monday 9th April at 19.15, regarding the afore mentioned housing
developments. It will give the public a
chance to air their views on the subject.
Oh
dear .... I’ve been putting the bucket (green) out.... and it’s already, ‘wet
and windy’. The ‘boy’ will be in his
bed early tonight.