Cracker of a morning ....
22nd
July 2018 (Sunday)
.... 09.30 It’s beautiful, ‘bright and
breezy’ morning; a grand morning for
doing things. I’m well ready for
breakfast after my
morning walk to Chapel Green; it’s taking me longer to do this walk. I’ll need to take a flask o’ coffee with me
in future: for some reason, the coffee I
make tastes reasonable from a flask. I
tangled up with some kind of ill natured wee dog at Chapel Green; jings it made a lot of noise. It must have woken up its owner who was
sleeping(?) in a tent nearby. At one point I think that it thought about
nipping my heels. (Not its best idea). After snapping and yelping its way behind me
for about 50 metres it eventually gave up:
it had done its job I guess. Defended its owners property.
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| It is a nice morning for a walk. |
The
walk along the beach was pleasurable, with
loads of people out walking, with and without dogs: one couple doing callisthenics ... that
was different. Yes it’s a bonnie
morning for doing stuff.
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| 5th green. |
21.30 You’ll hardly believe it; I actually did some ‘stuff’ in the
garden..... I dead headed, and watered the roses. Thankfully tomorrow is a rest day on the
‘Tour’ so I’ll be able to do more ‘stuff’ tomorrow.... the weather forecast is
excellent; in fact I might get the bike
out before breakfast. Now that would be
really doin’ stuff.
As
we all know, those of us that live at the Centre of the Universe, where we live
is the ‘other side of the hill’; i.e. “where
the grass is always greenest”.
However, with this long dry spell
the grass has turned various shades of ivory, through to brown, much earlier
than it normally would: apart from the
golf course greens etc. Of course,
with this being the ‘other side of the hill’ our grass, although no longer
green, is a classier shade of burnt!
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| Kincraig cliffs - Earlsferry. |
“Celebrity
Eclipse” is the only cruise liner in the Firth today; her next stop is Dover, arriving early on the
24th. She is a big girl and will be
easily seen if she leaves tonight; even
in the dark... when she’ll look like a
Christmas tree. That reminds me .... only 153 days until Christmas!
I’ll
go and watch the end of the ‘Open’ now .... congratulations to Francesco Molinari (Italy) who
won the claret jug, on what was, by all accounts, an exciting day.
