Busy day at 'The Little Cottage'.....

19th July 2019 (Friday)     06.30     I’ve got a washing out;  all I have to do

Kinneuchar from the East.

is have a cuppa and I’m ready to rock ‘’ roll.    We have a lovely start to the day here, though there’s an ever increasing chance of showers in the afternoon evening.    By that time the washing will be dry.... and ready to iron.    How do you iron a double valance?     I’ll do the bits that dangle doon the side o’ the bed!    Anyway forget that;    there’s a bonnie morrrrrrrning out there and I’m ready to go out and enjoy it.

Today is reputedly move in day at ‘The Little Cottage’, the tradesmen having worked until late last night doing all the last minute jobs to get the house ready for occupation.    Having worked on building sites, and been here the whole time that the job has been going on I’ll miss the buzz of workmen around....  a friendly bunch of blokes. 

Main Street - Kilconquhar.

09.30     I’ve been out;  round the villages, then home by way of Balbuthie Loan and Kinneuchar,.... and it was enjoyable.    The only reason I go via Balbuthie Loan is so that I can enter Kinneuchar from the East side.... Balbuthie Loan etc is not really interesting;  unless the cattle are near the road.    It is a bonnie morning.... and warm in the sun;   cool when it is behind a cloud.

Everyone is working hard at ‘The Little Cottage’:  there's no sign of a furniture van yet!    

This ‘time trial’ day with ‘le Tour’ so I’ll be keeping an eye on that, and pottering about Ivy for the remainder of the day. 

  18.00    We have the look of heavy rain coming in.... in fact it’s raining as I type;  and there’s yellow warning out for heavy thundery rain in parts of Fife.   Oh well... I won’t be going out on the bike again today.    I have stuff to do on the  computer and this evening looks like it might be the perfect evening for doing it.

My word .... the roads were busy when I went to Harbour House .... with cars, cyclists

Main Street - Kilconquhar.

going in all directions.   I enjoyed the break, but with Myra being away,  the ‘boys’ are leaderless   George had to spread the scone this morning.   Actually George surprised us by proving to be extremely adept at spreading said scone, and even more adept at dividing  into eight bite sized pieces.  

21.30     It has been a wet evening... but not cold.   Our oil tanker, ‘Nautilus’, that ‘we’ are following all the way to Ningbo, is starting to enter the traffic flow that will take her through the Straits of Dover and into the English Channel.  

I have been sorting out some of the photographs that Margaret and Chrissie Dunsire’s took on their trip to Australia and New Zealand to visit relations.    At that time the family (Dunsire) owned and lived in Balvonie.... the house next to Ivy Cottage.    They, Margaret and Chrissie, travelled out to the Antipodes in 1932 and home , by way of

Aboard RMS Orford.

Ceylon, in 1936 on the RMS Orford.   Four years later the Orford, built in 1928 (Vickers) was bombed in an air raid off Marseilles and beached.   14 people lost their lives in this action.    The hulk was towed to Savona and broken up in 1947. 

   

This has been brought to my mind because of the work that’s been done to ‘The Little Cottage’;   where Margaret lived.... although it was called 'Selina Cottage' then..    After their parents died Margaret, Chrissie and David eventually sold the big house (Balvonie) and moved into separate small houses in ‘The Ferry’.... that happened in the 1960’s.