Bright and sunny....
5th
April 2018 (Thursday)
... 07.30 As per weather forecast, we
have a
perfect ‘out and about’ kind of morning. There’s a frost, but that will soon shift; and, yes, I will get the bike out today; I might even be brave enough to go to the
harbour. That said, passing
the Ship Inn can be hazardous, with people bumbling along the middle of the
road... and vehicles. I’m feeling ‘brave’; but, for some unknown reason, not particularly frisky this morning.
09.30 I’ve been down to the harbour, on the
bike, and it was a pleasurable, if cold on the hands, run. There’s a brisk breeze (from the West) and
it is cool, especially at the harbour. Largo Law is covered in snow, as is the high
ground all around; that explains the
cold air. It’s warm in the sun ....as long as you're sheltered from the  |
| Elie..... (This is not an historical photograph.) |
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| Elie this morning. |
22.00
I think I could easily become fond of
‘bright and sunny’ weather, like we’ve had today: we’ve had a complete transformation from
what we had yesterday. Today has been
Spring. I’ve been out on the bike
(twice).... and down on the beach in the middle of the day, when the tide was
out. On sunny days I have the urge to
do things: actually we would all benefit
from a decent spell of sunny weather.
Yesterday
I was moanin’ about carrying a couple of bags messages, 50 metres up from the
Wynd, in the rain. Today I thought of
Alex carrying a bag of golf clubs round the Old Course, for probably 4 hours,
in that weather, and decided that I won’t be moanin’ about carrying stuff in
the rain again.
This
was the third anniversary of the founding of the ‘Drop in Cafe’... hence the
move to the Kirk Hall. There were song
sheets on the tables. Robert would provide
the music on the electric piano, and we would sing a few songs before and after tea/coffee. I couldn’t give it ‘laldie’; but I did enough to earn my cuppa. It was also Lexie’s birthday so a healthy
rendering of ‘Happy Birthday’ resounded round the
Hall.
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| Painted stone on the Ferry beach. |
Today
I met Georgie Vestey’s Mum, at the ‘Drop in Cafe’. Georgie is a young artist, based in
London. This evening I browsed Georgie’s
website; oh my word her work is ‘out of
this world’. She has been in India
recently, and her paintings of India ‘live’.
This lady has an abundance of talent that’s easy to see. Oh ...
I met Georgie when she was painting up at Chapel Green a couple of years ago.
This evening a migraine kicked in so I’ll
bumble orf to bed and sleep that off.
The weather is forecast to be ‘not bad’ tomorrow, but not ‘bright and
sunny’. However I should get the bike
out.
