9th
June 2019 (Sunday)
..... 09.00 I’ve been round the villages, and
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| Bright and breezy morning. |
everything is where it should be ..... more or less. We have a bonnie, ‘sunny spells’ start to the
day, but there is a cool breeze from the southwest: that said it should become warmer once the
sun gets going, and.... showers/rain aren't mentioned in today’s weather forecast.
I don’t suppose we can expect today to be as
exciting as yesterday was: it’s not
every day we have a wedding on Chapel Green.... but we do have the photo exhibition in Kinneuchar kirk; with tea/coffee. There’s the service at 11.00 but I've a funny feeling I'll be
sound asleep by then .... having poodled around since 05.30. I'm feeling tired now.
12.00 My word .... I feel ‘frightfully frisky’ having had a
good kip. I’m ready to rock ‘n’ roll
again; but I’m starvin’. I need food. The plan is to bike up to Balcarres, and to
take in the Kinneuchar exhibition on the
way home. Oh .... before I fell asleep
I managed to do a washing, which is now on the line on what is a perfect drying
day. Must go ‘slight flap on’ now.... food!
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| Balcarres Mains Farm cottages. |
20.00 For a change of route, and scenery I
decided go onto Balcarres Estate at the Balmakin cross roads junction; that took me down into the den, and up the
other side to Balcarres Mains farm. I
was surprised to find this road was
reasonably comfortable to bike on; the
last time I did it heavy rain had washed much of the top surface away and I had
to walk parts of it. That
would be more than a year ago. I really
enjoyed Balcarres Estate .... it was green
and peaceful. However I didn’t linger
too long; I was in need of a cuppa, so I made my way to
Kinneuchar kirk.
The
photograph exhibition had some bonnie pictures of Kinneuchar; the ones of the village in winter were my
favourites. Ron and Jean Forgan’s old photos of the village were attracting a
lot of interest.... old photos always do.
Although the photographs were interesting, what I really needed was a
cuppa. I’d finished the last
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| Balcarres Estate. |
of my
water bottle up on the estate and was in needed of liquid .... and a ‘goodie’. I relaxed with a coffee and had a chat with
Ken.... during which time I ate a couple of ‘goodies’. Feeling refreshed I went to the body of the
kirk to take a couple of pictures then set of home. I’d reached the curling pond when I
remembered that I’d forgotten to pay for my tea, and had to go back. All in all I cycled/scuttled 15.72
kilometres (9.75 miles) effortlessly.... on just over 40% of a full
battery. Very pleased.... and
contented.
Tomorrow
looks like being another nice day; ‘sunny
intervals with a moderate breeze’. .... yep
.... I could cope with sunny intervals.
I might get out early again.
Mind you I must do some ‘work’ .... but not too much.
