"2019" ....

1st January 2019 (Tuesday) ....  08.00   I wish all my Hutte friends a New

First sunrise of 2019.

Year full of “Health, Happiness, Peace and  Love” .... and evocative dreams.    I like dreams:  they’re like New Year resolutions .... fleeting moments of ‘different’.   I broke this year’s resolution (I only ever make one) about five minutes after I made it.   The chocolate biscuit shouldn’t have been in front of the computer.

We have a bonnie start to 2019;  a clear sky, full of stars, a bit of a moon and the planet Venus.... and a little light bumbling across the sky.   A satellite perhaps?   It’s not quite frosty but there is a braw, crisp  air;  a nice morning for a walk.   Actually the village is awfie quiet just now, though I’ve only been as far as the front gate.    I’ll go down to the beach after a cuppa.... sunrise isn’t until 08.46.   Enjoy New Years Day .... and all the other 364 days of 2019! 

Michael and Scout - with some of the debris  from last night celebrations.

10.30    The beach! .... now there’s the place to be today.    It was gorgeous at sunrise time.... and busy with dog walkers, and others just out for a stroll:  oh... and there was Michael and Scout collecting the debris from last night celebrations.   Welll... Michael was doing the collecting.... Scout was busy doing dog things.    It’s strange how folk can carry a heavy box of beer bottles down to the beach, but can’t carry s box of empty bottles off the beach; as far as the nearest bin would do.    ‘Thank you’ Michael and Scout;  you did a wonderful job, and it’s very much appreciated.

I’ve had a lovely start to the New Yea;  a bonnie sunrise, and, as I was leaving the beach a ray of sunshine appeared from ‘nowhere,... and I began 2019 with a lovely hug.

11.30      The ‘tele’ has a few interesting programmes on today;  right now I am watching the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna;   and there’s the Walt Disney film ‘Jungle Book ’late in the afternoon.    And there’s a reasonable choice of evening viewing;   “In sight of Home” at 22.00  is, for me, a must watch.    It’s about “The Iolaire”, a former luxury yacht being used to ferry sailors home from the  Great War,  that struck rocks, and sank, off Stornoway on the 1st January 1919, resulting in over 200 lives being lost:   within sight of home.

20.00    This has been a good year:  so far I haven’t done anything stupid.   I don’t think so anyway.   We’ve lovely, sunny weather, with loads of people wandering about... though I only ever went out the once.    I have been in the garden a few times and I have noticed that the temperature has dropped in the last hour or so.    Tomorrow is forecast to be colder.... in fact frost first thing.

As yet I don’t have a plan for tomorrow;  it depends on when Jackie is travelling back up to Auchnagatt.    I have to go to Kinross Services to meet her and be reunited with some of my Christmas presents.