10th
November 2018 (Saturday)
....09.00 The beach was busy with
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| Elie Bay sunrise. |
joggers, dogs walking their owners... and folk just enjoying the fresh morning
air... on what is a quieter morning, the wind having moderated overnight. Sunrise was also quieter with more subtle, and
peaceful colours; I have a washing
going through the machine .... so it can’t/won’t rain!
I’d
best get organised for the Coffee Morning;
I’ll start by having breakfast.
16.00 I’m just in from a run up to, and through
Balcarres Estate. I don’t think I’ve
ever seen the estate so busy; horses
(and riders) in fields, all over the place.
I didn’t tarry, though I did stop
to take a few photographs of the Woodland walk. The horses were up at the top of the estate,
.... Balniel and Lathallan.
The
Coffee Morning in the kirk hall was enjoyable, but quiet at first; that’s
probably because I was there by 10.00 .... before all the goodies disappeared. Jim was feeling ‘under the weather’ so decided
to stay in the house. There was plenty of coffee/tea
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| Peaceful scene near Kinneuchar. |
being served by
our lovely waitresses, and the tables were well supplied with scones and
biccies... the empty plates being topped up regularly. Empty plates?
19.30 The sky clouded over from lunch time and it’s
now raining.... though not heavily. The
weather forecast for tomorrow, Armistice
Day, is for us to have sunny spells, with the chance of a shower later
.... there’s going to be a cool SE breeze.
It should be fine for 11.00. when the wreath lay ceremony takes place at
Elie war Memorial, followed by the Service in the Kirk. I will be thinking of my mother’s Uncle
Fred (my Grand Uncle) who was killed in April 1918; every family, of all nationalities that
fought in WW1 will have someone to remember.
The signing of the Armistice stopped the shooting and shooting but it
didn’t
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| Balbuthie Road. |
take away the suffering, mental and physical, for those that survived
the horrors and trenches of WW1: nor the suffering of the families that were
struggling to nurse a loved one back to health. Some of the facial injuries were so horrific
that masks were used, to conceal the destroyed faces. Yes we will remember them.
