24th
July 2019 (Wednesday) 09.30 ....
After the thunder, lightning and
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| The Beacon (Earlsferry) this evening. |
torrential downpour, everything is
looking pristine this morning; in fact I
feel pristine and ‘frisky as a Spring lamb’.
The sky is still heavily overcast and we could get a few showers, but it
should be all summery in the afternoon.
It has to be as I want to get out on the bike sometime today!
With
the weather being somewhat inclement at 05.00 I went back to bed and had a good
old sleep in: hence the fresh and frisky
‘me’.
13.30 We have another hot day.... probably not
quite as hot as yesterday with the early morning thunder cooling the air down a
bit. I took the car up to Colinsburgh
for fuel before going for morning coffee at Harbour House. Go up to Chapel Green in the afternoon....
could be too hot to venture as far as Balcarres. It is forecast to be
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| Busy beach. |
hotter tomorrow ....
with another yellow warning for
overnight/early morning thunder Thursday/Friday. It is a better day for moving between Ivy
and the Hutte.... this can be done, carrying a mug of tea, ‘nae bother’.... and before the tea has evaporated!
20.00 Thankfully this is the last week of ‘le Tour’....
I’m absolutely shattered bikin’ in this heat.
Today was another mountain stage, as is tomorrow: the scenic shots from the helicopter are
amazing.... I wish Maggie and I had been able to visit Europe more. We were lucky enough to manage a couple of
visits before Maggie’s "nae weelness", and I’m thankful for that. ‘Le Tour’ takes me ‘round’ France on my own....
so I’m happy with that too.
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| West end of Links Road, Earlsferry. |
It’s
a lovely evening so I went up to Chapel green on the bike.... then to the Pony
Field. The beach was busy... as was
the golf course: it is that kind of
evening. I saw on the weather forecast
that the record high for the UK could be broken tomorrow.... down in the southeast. That includes ‘sunny Sussex!’ We are forecast to get 29c .... the
southeast 39c. I couldn’t move in that
(39c): I’d sit in The Hutte, drinking
tea, and water, doing Soduko’s.... which
is ‘iggzactly’ what I’ll do in 29c! I
haven’t got a plan for tomorrow apart from stay cool.
