Perfect morning for scampering ....
25th
July 2019 (Thursday) 06.30 .... it is a crackin’ morning
and I’m having a quick cuppa before heading out on the bike; and
before it gets too warm for this ‘boy’. Everything is quiet and peaceful, sunny and
warming up nicely, with hardly a breath of wind; what breeze there is coming from the
southeast. It’s a perfect morning for a
good scuttle.
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| Elie this morrrning. |
08.00 The villages were quiet, but I did meet
Primrose ,on her way to the harbour;
like me, out before the roads get busy.
The temperature shouldn’t get up to 29c on the beach because of the
brisk southeast breeze, but will be hot nonetheless.... especially in Ivy garden, where it probably will
reach 29c.
11.30 It is
cosy; right now it is 27c in Ivy garden
(in the shade), so I might just hit 29c in the afternoon. I dashed into Kirkcaldy to buy a couple of
pillows, and visited Jim on the way home.
Jim was ‘normal, just a bit forgetful, Jim’ today; when you find him like this you wonder why
he’s in ‘care’. Sadly, most of the
time, he’s in ‘escape mode’, wondering where the car is.
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| Chapel Green flower tub. |
Having done my 'scampering' in the morning my afternoon is going to be spent staying cool.... and perhaps making up the bed
now that I have the pillows etc. The
bike has a fully charged battery so I might venture out once the heat of the
day passes. Orf to have another cuppa.
19.00 The temperature in the garden never got
above 27c due to the wind freshening, and the sky clouding over. Mind you 27c was too hot for this ‘boy’
doing very much; yet, when I was in
Cyprus (National Service) we had summer temperatures like this .... welll most
of the summer .... and played about on the beach every day we could. Today I pottered around inside Ivy, .... and
did Soduko’s in the Hutte.
The
Yellow warning for heavy thundery showers is still in force for later tonight’. The Yorkshire Dales is experiencing a
thunder storm just now, and it is moving slowly northeast.: and out to sea with a bit of luck. The bike has been stowed away, the plan
being to get ‘up and out’ early tomorrow morning. I’m assuming any overnight rain, that might
have come our way, has cleared.
‘M’
(New Zealand) is in a serious state of excitement; she has become the owner of an iPad .... and
is travelling to Bonnie Scotland over the next few days. I think she arrives in the UK on Saturday. It will be good seeing her again; and I know she will be looking forward to
seeing her East Neuk pals again. We keep 'in touch' via Skype most evenings.
20.00 We have big raindrops falling on our
heads.... could this be the start of a
thundery shower? The southern sky is
very dark and threatening looking.
This
year’s Tour de France is the most exciting one in a long time; definitely since Team Sky made it boring. Normally I watch the start, a bit in the
middle, then the last half hour, but today I had to watch it almost all the way
through from the middle. Exciting
stuff; I managed to keep cool
today: the cyclists did not.
It is/was the start of a heavy shower... but no thunder.
