'Walk and Feast' ....
29th
June 2019 (Saturday) 09.00 .... It’s a bonnie morning;
though
overcast just now, the sun is beginning to burn off the cloud, so we should
have long sunny spells in a wee while.
Rain showers are forecast for the afternoon/evening, but the ‘Walk and
Feast’ will be finished by then. Oh
... I now know why I kept falling asleep for the past couple of days; I’m choked up with a head cold. However I feel brighter this morning so I’ll
bike up to Colinsburgh for coffee/tea then up to the Deil’s Lodge. I don’t know if I’ll go back to Colinsburgh
for lunch; I’ll see how I feel.... and how the shower clouds are building. If they look threatening I
might need to scuttle home before the showers.
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| A few of our walkers at the top of the Double Dykes (Balcarres Estate) |
17.00 The ‘Walk and Feast’ was really
enjoyable; I went around on the bike,
and was all over Balcarres, taking short cuts to get in front of the walkers
(14) so that I could get a few photographs.
I managed to get a few ... 98 in fact.
It was sunny and warm hot for the duration of the ‘Walk’ .... and
the ‘Feast’: I won’t need any food
tonight the ‘Feast’ was just that ... a ‘Feast’. On my travels around the estate I saw 3
Painted Lady butterflies.... and two Ringlets. It
was clouding over by the time everything was finished, and we were
getting ready to go home but I was back in Ivy
long before any showers came our
was (16.30). I checked the garden
thermometer at 15.00 and it was reading 26c.
The sky was overcast at the time, and the heat from the land was trapped
below the cloud; it was like being in an
oven. We have had a few flash of
lightning and real cracks of thunder
(16.45).... and it’s very close... just over one second away: that was followed by short spell of torrential/heavy rain. This storm is moving East,,,,, by the look
of the sky it could be followed by
others.
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| North Lodge (Deil's Lodge) gates. |
19.00 The thunder storm has moved away but there’s
another one coming through
Edinburgh just now and we could catch the edge of
that: it appears to be moving this way. The thunder will clear the air; tomorrow
is forecast ‘sunny spells with a moderate breeze’.... with the chance of a
light shower in the middle part of the day.
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| Interested spectators. |
