28th
April 2019 (Sunday)
.... 07.30 This is a quick update
before I go out
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| Chapel Green, Earlsferry - from The Terrace, Elie. |
on the bike. It’s a perfect
morning for being out, and I fancy biking through the fresh greens of Elie
Estate. I
haven’t forgotten the kitchen windows.... they’ll be fitted into the ‘plan’
after I get back. We have a lovely start
to the day; long sunny spells with only a smirr of a breeze
from the east.
21.00 My word .... we’ve had a glorious ‘sunny
and warm’ day at the Centre of the Universe .... and I have enjoyed it. I did bike through the estate and was
rewarded for the effort by getting some of the best photos of the loch that I’ve
ever taken. On the way home I stopped
at The Terrace, plonked my butt on a seat, (after I’d dried it off) (not my
butt ... the seat) and watched the tide coming in for 20 minutes: I am an expert in the art of ‘tide watching’. Deidre, who was being taken for a walk by
her dog, stopped for a chat, and a short spell of ‘tide watching’....but, it’s
a well known fact that dogs are not great tide watching animals; so Deidre had to continue with the dog
walking. I sat for another 10 minutes,
then thought “hey ... I’m hungry!” .... and remembered that I had yet to have breakfast,
and sped back to Ivy and ate.
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| East end of Kinneuchar. |
The
remainder of the day I spent in the garden .... working most of the time. The first, and biggest job, was removing a
small nettle bed. It was supposed to be
food for Tortoiseshell butterfly caterpillars, though I never ever saw a caterpillar,
of any kind, on the nettles. They, the
nettles, have been detached from the planet, and are now in the
‘broon bucket’.
Having
had a busy day I am feeling content, but my knee is not. Content i.e. I’m slowly beginning to ‘work’ slowly. For instance cleaning the windows, inside
and out, would have taken a couple of hours two years ago; now it takes two days. Well three actually; I forgot about
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| Kinneuchar loch ... and kirk. |
windows when I started on the
nettles. I will finish them
tomorrow; in fact the windows’ will be
my first job.
We
are forecast to have another bonnie day, though it may be cloudier for longer
in the morning. It ought to be sunny
and warm (sheltered from the onshore breeze) by midday. I’m beginning to feel an increase in my
frisky rating; which explains the urge
to work. It will have been brought on
by the excellent weather.
