Painting day ....
30th
August 2018 (Thursday)
.... 08.30 It’s a good day for painting
the shed .... we have a blue sky with a light westerly breeze; a perfect drying day.
Painting
will be like having a ‘rest’ day, spells of painting (short) mixed with
Soduko’s and tea breaks (long) in the Hutte.
Of course I will take ‘time out’ for the paper/Harbour House coffee
break.... and the ‘Drop in Cafe’ in the afternoon. Yes this has the makings of a serene kind of
day.
14.00 I’ve done well with the shed painting, and the tea drinking; Soduko’s?... slow. It has clouded over so I’ve stopped
painting; what I have already done is dry,
so even if we do get a shower it won’t be washed off . Luckily the clouding over has coincided with me going to the ‘Drop in Cafe’,
and the shower clouds are to pass over in a couple of hours; I should get some more painting done when I
get back from the ‘Cafe’.  |
| The shed. |
20.00 The ‘Cafe was quiet at first, but filled up
by 15.00: it was good catching up with
everyone.... and eating Irene’s pancakes.
‘Nothing’ has been happening, all over the place it seems. Unfortunately we didn’t have anyone from
Kinneuchar to give us
an update on the hinterland; it, Kinneuchar,
might have been a hive of activity.
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| ... tight squeeze. |
I
have been active today; in between
rests. Any showers seemed to be over
in the Edinburgh direction, so I got another coat of paint on the shed. The shed must have moved, either that or
the wall has gotten closer to the shed;
the space between the two has shrunk since I last painted it ...the shed. I managed to get it done, ..... but I am
mystified as the how a shed, or wall could move.
Tomorrow
looks like being another good painting day so I’ll give the shed its final
coat.
When
I was coming home from the ‘Cafe’ I noticed a bluebottle ‘stood staunin’ on the car windscreen (on the outside of the
windscreen). I was going out towards
Ardross and accelerated ‘sooper buggy’ up to 50 mph: bluebottles have a good set of ‘sookers’ on
their feet.... it didn’t blow off.... it flew off when I slowed down to 10 mph,
to turn onto the Balbuthie road. Hardy thing are bluebottles; they’ve got heids like concrete, and sooper sookers
on their feet: okay... they are a bit
erratic when flying;
they don’t do
straight lines.... but interesting and colourful they certainly are.
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| The apples are beginning to look interesting! |
My
‘plan’ for tomorrow is to do the shed again.... once the sun gets going. I may go to Leven to do a small shopping
first thing.
