21st
August 2018 (Tuesday)
.... 08.00 A light breeze from the East
has
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| After the dreichness of early morning. |
brought low cloud in from the North Sea, so we have a dreich start to the
morning: however it will brighten up by
mid morning when the breeze veers to the West. I won’t be going to the beach until after
mid morning; and I won’t be doing much
in the garden until afternoon.
Hey ... the ‘dump’ (Re-cycling
Depot) is open today, I’ll get rid of the auld tele that’s in the back of the
car.
19.30 Jim and I rook ‘SD’ out to Ruddon’s Point for
a walk, on what was a bonnie, but muggy, afternoon. ‘Muggy’ days, humid and warm with nae wind
are when ant colonies having their nuptial flight, and, today conditions along the
Ruddons Point road were perfect. The road, it’s a sandy track, had the nuptial
flights from all the local colonies in action at the same time. Every step we took along that road we stood
on excited ants; you couldn’t help it,
they were everywhere. The walk is over
a kilometre long and there were ants every step of the way. They had one thing on their mind....
reproduction. We had to brush them off
when we got back to the car; thankfully,
they were too busy to even think of stinging.
It made for an interesting walk.
The last time I saw anything on this scale was on the Myrebird road
(Crathes):
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| Jim at Ruddons Point. |
it was a similar track with
multiple colonies. I was nine years old
at that time. Jings... that was 71 years ago; I can hardly believe that. I wonder if the descendants of those ants
are still around? Probably are.
I’d
been to the re-cycling depot first thing in the morning from where I went to
Colinsburgh to fuel up the car, before going to Elie for morning coffee.... and
to buy a paper. I went to the beach for
a short walk after ‘morning coffee, and was rewarded by seeing that the beach
was busy with all my ‘hibernating’ friends enjoying a walk in beautiful sunshine.
Tomorrow
I must seriously consider going for a haircut;
at the moment it looks like I’m growing my own blankets. I’ll also buy a pair of loppers when I’m in
Leven. I
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| Dumbarnie Links.... Largo Bay. |
think rain is forecast for tomorrow morning first
thing; but warm and sunny later. A good kind of day for getting a
haircut. By the look of the Western sky just now, the
rain doesn’t appear to be far away.
