Bright and breezy ....
23rd
May 2019 (Thursday)
.... 09.00 Wellll ..... the ‘plan’
for today did
not include me ‘sleeping in’; but I did .... and didn’t wake up until
08.00. “The best laid schemes o’
mice, men and Alberto.... gang aft agley” right enough. I think all the floundering about with the
car MOT the other day must have caught me up... however, I do feel better after
a really good night’s sleep, but today’s plan is now three hours behind
schedule. After breakfast I’ll go up
to Balcarres on the bike: it’s a nice
morning with long sunny spells... and a brisk westerly wind.
13.00 Over breakfast I had another change of ‘plan’; I decided to go to Leven and get my haircut
(Kirstie works on Thursdays), then I’d visit Jim. At breakfast, my ‘late’ breakfast time the
sky busy with clouds some of which looked like they could give us a shower, and
that is why I changed the plan. |
| Elie - from Rires Farm. |
Once
again Kirstie worked her magic, and I came out feeling happier, and less
hairy. Jim was in good form today, and
looking very smart: he wanted me to take
him out for
a walk on the beach, but I managed to talk him out of that
idea. I put a slipper back on the foot
of a lady, who had been poking me in the ribs ....until I got the message that
one of her slippers was off.
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| Kinneuchar Kirk - from |Rires Farm. |
I’ll
have a ‘lite’ lunch then have ‘50’, before going out on the bike.
18.00 I have
had a great day: in the morning having
my haircut then visiting ‘Jimbo’, then .... in the afternoon, biking up to
Rires Farm. The distance travelled to
and from Rires was 17.3 kilometres (10.74 miles). This makes Rires Farm 5.37 miles from
Ivy. I went up to Rires via Colinsburgh and the
Double Dykes, and came back by the same road.
I did this using only just over 4 % of the battery. That is good considering Rires is nearly
all uphill as soon as you enter the Estate (Balcarres); there was also an F5 wind from the west so I
had to bike
into that. I never thought
that I’d bike all the way up to Rires again;
without the e-bike I couldn’t have done it. My knee wouldn’t have been able to cope with
the pressure. Yes .... I am impressed,
and very happy, with the Raleigh e-bike....
and ... they’re still Made in Nottingham, England.
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| Balcarres House from the North-west. |
