24c in Ivy garden .... ....
15th
July 2019 (Monday) 06.30 ....we have another lovely
morning; long
sunny spells with a light
air so hardly any wind chill at all. A
good morning for getting out and about:
the beach will be busy today I imagine. I’m having a cuppa before going round the
villages, and I might go up to Balcarres in the afternoon, it depends on how
hot it is. It really is a ‘play day’!
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| It's a lovely morning at The Centre of the Universe! |
09.30 I’ve been round the villages and it’s all
good at the Centre of the Universe this morning. Everything is where it should be... apart
from a few clouds that occasionally obscure the sun; but they’re only ‘fluffy balls of cotton wool
clouds’, and they enhance a photograph, so are acceptable. As
Emily (my Granddaughter) once said to me.. nearly 30 years ago..... “those are white clouds Granddad, and white
clouds mean sunshine!” She was two years old at
the time!
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| One happy boy about to begin work for the day! |
15.00 Oh dear .... this heat is too much for one
elderly person. It’s 24c in the
garden, too hot to sit in The Hutte and do Soduko’s. I’d like to say that I have done a lot of
work this afternoon, ut I can’t .... ‘cos I haven’t. Done a lot of work i.e. Oh I found some stuff to wash and that is
hanging on the line, and I pulled a weed;
but I have managed to avoid physical work. I even took the car up to Elie when I went
for coffee; I needed to buy milk.
Now
I must mention Brenda’s hair, which she had done on Friday. It is what I would call ‘flamboyant deep
red’.... my word it suits her. I have
been in a state of exhilaration since coffee time.... my wee heart pitter
pattering like a woodpecker’s heid on bonus. No wonder I haven’t been able to do any
work! I need another cuppa.
20.30 What has been a gorgeous day is ending with a lovely evening, so I went
out
on the bike, up to Chapel green to ‘watch the world go by’. It was very peaceful, with not much ‘going
by’. A few people wandered along the
beach, and reached Chapel Green as I was leaving, and a few golfers were out,
everyone enjoying the evening sunshine.
From Chapel Green I went to the ‘Pony Field’ then home. Now I’m ready for a cuppa followed by an
early night in bed with my book.
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| The Ferry beach this evening. |
21.00 ‘Sea Cloud II’... a tall ship cruise
vessel, is entering the Firth just now, making for Leith. At the moment she is east of the May, but
should be visible, albeit on the south side of the Firth, about 22.00. I don’t
know if her sails are set, because she is underway using her engine.
