11th
May 2019 (Saturday)
....06.30 Sunrise was at 05.06 this
morning, but
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| Elie kirk at 05.06 .... sunrise time. |
the actual event was hidden behind low cloud. I’d
gone up to Elie to catch the sunrise around the kirk, so was a bit disappointed
as far as that went. However it is a
grand morning for being out, and it was interesting, and surprising, to see how
many vans rattle through Elie at that time of morning. I went down to the harbour for a walk
around, then back up to the High Street, where I met Iain waiting for the
papers to be delivered. By this time (05.30)
the sun was beginning to appear through the clouds so I took a few more
photographs before going up to see how Kinneuchar looked at this time of
morning. It looks like we could have
another bonnie day .... and there isn’t much in the way of a breeze so the wind
chill is negligible.
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| The harbour at sunrise time. |
22.00 Iain
brought his and Jackie’s e-bikes down so that I could have a go on a battery
assisted bike: welll .... it’s like
someone has stretched the roads flat, and hills no longer exist. I was biking, effortlessly, like I used to
bike 10 years ago: the wind blawin’
roond my lugs, has me feeling 40 years younger.
I didn’t , in my wildest dreams, imagine how, being able to move a bike
like I used too, would make me feel.
Biking is likely to become enjoyable again .... but I will have to get used
to speed .... the e-bike accelerates faster than ‘sooper buggy’.
Oh .... and taking corners with 20
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| Main Street - Kinneuchar. |
inch wheels is trickier. The plan is to go out tomorrow for a longer ‘run’. Longer in distance but shorter, by far, on
time. This evening we went up the Ferry
Road, down the Elie Road, and to the harbour and home by The Terrace and South
Street. Yep ‘the boy’ will be buying
himself a folding e-bike. It has to be
folding so that I can get it in the car:
I want to bike over the Forth Bridge again.... and the Tay bridge.
In
the morning, after Coffee in Harbour House, I up to Kinneuchar and had a wee
walk about; mostly round the kirk. The weather has been bonnie all day, it was
warm in the sun when sheltered from the wind.
Tomorrow is forecast to be much the same as today....sunny and warm out
of the wind. The temperature is
forecast to be up in the mid teens by Tuesday.
I won’t have my e-bike by then but I should have either found where I
can go to get one, or have ordered one online.
