Feeling cool ... so is the weather


24th May 2018 (Thursday) .....  09.00    Mmmmm .... the sky is heavily overcast, the wind is direct from the East, and, though not cold it isn’t “iggzactly”
A new 'thing' (marquee) at the Ship Inn.
warm.    The sun should break through, and, away from the East coast, it could be hot by afternoon.    Our pollution level is at Medium.     It’s raining in ‘Sunny Sussex’ so their pollution level is ‘Low’.
   
The villages are beginning to fill up for the Bank Holiday weekend;  I suppose this is the beginning of the summer holiday season .... when ‘locals’ can feel overwhelmed.    I just bumble about on the bike;  and fall in love with the  girl visitors.     Hey .... I need food.    Jim has been seen bumbling down Ferry Road in the buggy, .... and I haven’t had breakfast yet.


21.00    There was only Geoff and I for coffee in Harbour House  this morning;  Jim and Myra had other appointments.   Having said that,  Harbour House was busy;  and will be over the holiday weekend.    I biked along in spite of the wind being Easterly;  but I was well wrapped up.    “Ne’er cast a cloot, till May is oot”, an old traditional
Elie.
saying, first recorded in 1732, is apt this year.     Whether it refers to the month of May or the May flower (Hawthorn or Blackthorn) is debatable... though it was most probably the 'flowers'.

I spent some of the afternoon trying to tweak the gears on Maggie’s bike;  they are nearly working perfectly, but nearly isn’t good enough.   I’ll have to go onto YouTube and find a video that shows me the ‘H’ and ‘L’ screws.    I can see the screws but they haven’t got any marks to indicate which is which.... and they are for the final adjustment.    This frustrated boy was able to take ‘time out’ at the ‘Drop in Cafe’.    If decibels be a sign of happiness,  then the Drop in Cafe was extraordinarily happy this afternoon.   It was brilliant.    The general news from the outlying areas of East Neuk Trinity Kirk,...  Kinneuchar,
Balcarres Estate.
Colinsburgh and the hinterland,...  is that there’s ‘nothing happening’.  
 
By all accounts the holiday weekend is going to be warm, but cooler along the East coast, because of the low cloud/haar and the onshore wind.   There’s the Christian Aid Coffee Morning, in the Kirk Hall, on Saturday;  this is a busy ‘CM’ with home baking etc.    I Must remember to be along there before all the goodies are sold.

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