Brisk westerly ....
13th
June 2018 (Tue
.. oops ..Wednesday) .... 09.00 There’s
a lovely fresh
feel to the air this morning... in fact it is cool, with a brisk
Westerly breeze. I’ve been round the villages, and through
the Estate , on the bike... a distance of 12.8 kilometres (7.9 miles); now I’m ready for breakfast. After breakfast I’ll do some work around
Ivy.
Elie harbour this morning. |
I see that the "caravan tour round Earlsferry looking for a caravan site at Elie" has started again. Oh well ... at least they have a tour round the 'Royal Burgh'.
20.00 Storm ‘Hector’ (Bless his cotton socks) is
on ‘his’ way in from the Atlantic, and is due to hit us tomorrow with gale
force winds, and rain. It has been
raining already, but this is just the front edge of ‘Hect’; around midday tomorrow is when he’s to be
wildest.
"The Oak House". |
Today
has been enjoyable. I’ve been
biking... then took the car up to Elie and had coffee with Jim and Geoff in
harbour House. I had thought of going
up to Shell Bay to get a few pictures the Dumbarnie Golf Course before the
Friendship Lunch, but changed my mind.
I’d go to Shell Bay after the Lunch.
This
was the last Friendship Lunch before summer:
the next one will be on the 12th September. “William T” was down from Colinsburgh, but
he assured me that there was nothing going on in the outer reaches of the
parish. Lexie wasn’t there so I didn’t
find out what was happening in the Woodside area.
There
is an article in the Courier today about ‘holiday homes’, and the effect they’re
having on the East Neuk villages.
According to the figures Elie is 33% holiday homes, and Earlsferry
54%. Those percentages have to be
wrong.... and on the low side. In 1960
Ferry Road, from the golf course to the beach had 14 houses on it... all of
which were occupied full time. Now
there are 18 houses on Ferry Road (Geordie Graham’s garage was turned into 4
flats) ..... 13 out of the 18 are
holiday homes; though some are used as ‘second
homes’ more than ‘holiday homes’. In fact I regard some of my ‘second home’
neighbours as ‘locals’; I don’t know if
that is a compliment... or not! Anyway, extrapolate the Ferry Road figure
throughout Earlsferry and you’d be
nearer the true percentage. But at the end of the day.... there’s
nothing can/will be done about it. "Locals" will gradually
become a fleeting thought in someone’s memory. Sad really but there it is.
Dumbarnie Links. |
I
did go up to Shell Bay and have look at the action on Dumbarnie Links. The new dunes etc taking shape; there’s
going to be a golf course there in ‘nae time’.
Well
I have to say that I have ‘nae plan’ for tomorrow; apart from going to the ‘Drop in Cafe’ in
the afternoon. If ‘Hect’ is as excitable
as he is forecast to be the weather will dictate any activities.