My word ... a cracker of a morning.
24th
April 2020 (Friday) 06.00 .... After the ‘red sky at night,
shepherd’s
delight’ sunset we have a gorgeous morning; hardly a breath of wind and almost a wall to
wall blue sky already..... definitely a day for getting out and doing things once
the temperature gets ups a bit. I
should get out on the bike later in the morning, but the main ‘plan’ is to get
some paint on the outside of ‘The Hutte’.
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| Lovely morrrrrrning. |
07.30 I had to take the car up for the paper (I
needed milk) so went down to the beach when I got back: I haven’t been to the beach for a while. Everything is pretty much as it was .... apart
from the actual beach which changes with every tide. I chatted to a couple of dog walkers.... so
that has set me up for the day. Now I
need breakfast before organising the painting job. I’ll go out on the bike after ‘morning
coffee’.
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| The Ivy Cottage Dandelions are looking good! |
21.00 I have had
a really enjoyable day; most of
it painting one side of the Hutte. It
takes five coats to really do the job so it’s an ongoing project. It was the perfect day for painting but is
did turn colder when the wind went to the East and the haar started to come
in. Prior to the haar coming in it was
19c in Ivy garden. I stopped painting
tidied up everything, had a cuppa then went for a scuttle round the villages. I like the villages with the population we
have just now; not overcrowded but
plenty of people to talk to... and not a lot of traffic. You notice the lack of traffic most going to
and from the harbour.... it’s brilliant.
I could get used to this. My biggest worry re the virus coming to out
wee villages is via holiday lets in the summer season. Will the letting agents do any checks? I doubt it. Having checked the Air B n B site it appears
that they will be sending people on holiday to wherever as of 9th May.... when
they expect the present travel restrictions to be lifted. That will be when this boy goes into total
lockdown.
The
worst photograph imaginable regarding COVID-19 was in the Scotsman today
(and probably in a few
other papers). It was a photograph of “Armed
veterans demonstrating in front of the State Capitol building demanding that
businesses open and lives return to normal in Topeka, Kansas”. What were the assault rifles about? Were they going to shoot the virus? Somebody should tell them that there's a serious side effect doing that! It’s
going to be a changed world by the time this is all over.
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| Haar coming in over Elie. |
Tomorrow
is going to be more or less a repeat of today for me: assuming the
fog/haar clears away quickly in the morning I intend painting the Hutte.
