Feeling perky ....
10th
March 2018 (Saturday)
.... 08.30 Oh dear .... as per
forecast we have “wet and windy”, coming in from the North sea; not a pretty morning .... as far
as the weather goes. However we do have the Coffee Morning, at
10.00, ... and, there’s always an abundance of sunshine at our CM’s.
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| Aboyne Home Guard 1940. |
In
spite of the dreich weather, I’m actually feeling perky: my aches and pains are all in the right
places, and I’m wanting to do things. On a perky scale from 1 - 10 ... I'd say that I am at 9. That’s excellent.
14.00 The Coffee Morning was excellent; exactly what I/we needed on a wet and miserable day. I missed the Home Baking table on the way in, too busy looking for a table to sit at, but got it on the way out: by which time the Gingerbread had ‘sold out’. In fact the gingerbread is so popular that it had sold out by 10.10 .... so I would have been too late anyway, as I didn’t get there until 10.15. However I did buy a good mixture of goodies; enough to see me through this grey day.... and a bit more.
14.00 The Coffee Morning was excellent; exactly what I/we needed on a wet and miserable day. I missed the Home Baking table on the way in, too busy looking for a table to sit at, but got it on the way out: by which time the Gingerbread had ‘sold out’. In fact the gingerbread is so popular that it had sold out by 10.10 .... so I would have been too late anyway, as I didn’t get there until 10.15. However I did buy a good mixture of goodies; enough to see me through this grey day.... and a bit more.
Once
again I have been ‘browsing’ my older photographs, so we’re going to have three
of those on ‘The Hutte’ today: starting
with areal ‘blast from the past .... one of the Aboyne Home Guard in 1941, with,
what looks to me like a WWI Lewis Light Machine Gun set up as an anti aircraft
weapon. I’m sure someone will know if
that is what it is.
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| St Monans Auld Kirk ... from yacht Rum Rig. |
20.30 The weather might have been ‘iffy’, but it
gave me the chance of a good browsing session. It’s
not aimless browsing; I’m placing all
the cliff and Chainwalk photo folders, into one folder .... with (at the moment)
2245 photographs... but I have more ‘backed up’ files, on external drives and
DVD’s, to look through, so there could be more.
I
took time out from the computer to watch Ireland beat Scotland 28 – 8 in the Six
Nations Rugby; Ireland well deserved to
win, but the score doesn’t quite reflect the effort Scotland put into the game: of course effort doesn’t win matches...
scoring does. At the end of the day
Ireland have won the Six Nations... and have only England to beat to
claim a ‘Grand Slam’.
We
are going to have sunny spells tomorrow.... and nae rain. Well rain isn’t mentioned
in any of the
weather forecasts that I look at. The
Service is at Kinneuchar tomorrow; I
think I might make the effort and go to it.
There’s an especial, short service, in the afternoon, in/at Elie kirk,
to remember all deceased loved ones. I remember Maggie all the time, but I will definitely attend
that service.
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| St Ford poppies - 2007. |
