Cold northerly wind...
10th
May 2020 (Sunday) 06.30 ... ... the weather forecasters are ‘bang
on’ with the forecast; there’s a brisk
fresh wind from the North and cold and overcast with occasional spits and spots
of rain .... not a day for the bike. I
have a braw warm job this morning; an
ironing that’s been building up over the warm days, and an old film or two on
the tele. I might go for a walk to the beach later in
the day.
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| Elie harbour beach. |
09.00 It is a cauld wind today; it’s very very cauld on the bits that aren’t well wrapped up. If Rip van Winkle woke up this morning,
after his long nap, he’d turn over and
go back to sleep; it’s like the middle o’
winter. Not a morning for this
boy being out and about very much. Oh
I’ve been for the paper and down to the harbour then home by way of
Kinneuchar; it is definitely not a
morning for going out on the bike:
correction – it’s not a morning for going out at all! At least the sky is beginning to brighten up
but it’s not forecast to get very warm today.
11.30 This is morning coffee time; immediately after Myra phones (Myra phones her
boys every morning) I have my ‘morning coffee’
it’s the nearest we can get to coffee in ‘arbour ‘ouse. We were talking (Myra and I) about when the
three of us (and ‘Sooper Dawg’) walked the Shell Bay woods. The woods are criss - crossed by numerous
wee paths which cross each other and Jim knew where every single one of them
went and
which path to join to get to ‘wherever’. If I
was in the woods on my own I just blundered along until I came to one of the
firebreaks. We had a wee reminisce this
morning. I think not being able to
visit Jim is one of the hardest things to cope with at this time; this must be really hard on Myra and the
boys, and on all families who have loved ones in Care Homes around the world.
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| Gannets fishing in the bay. |
It
is a nice morning now but still very windy and cold. I was thinking of getting the bike out and
going round the villages and into the estate after my coffee break.
17.00 I went up Ferry Road to the estate as
planned; the coldest bit was going up
Ferry Road to the North Lodge... the wind was into my face on that bit: once inside the estate it was not bad. You know how I am always going on about speaking
to folk well today I met Matthew and Sylvia who were also on their bikes going
through the estate. Actually I have
seen Matthew loads of time when he’s out jogging but didn’t know his name until
today. I am meeting and talking to
people more just now than I would in a normal holiday season In the normal holiday season the villages
are too crowed and I tend (subconsciously)
to go into visitor mode; i.e. I am the visitor
(in my
own villages) and become
introvert in a strange kind of way. Anyway I enjoyed chatting to Andrew and Sylvia
and hope they had a pleasant run home to
Earlsferry. I went to the harbour on
the way home... it was warm in the sunshine on the lee side of the granary: the bike is now in The Hutte where it will
remain until tomorrow.
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| Elie Estate road... with Matthew and Sylvia in the distance. |
20.30 Temperature apart this has been a bonnie
day; though we did catch the edge of a shower
that gave us a few (very few ‘cos it was only the extreme edge of the shower) about 16.00.
It was hot sitting in The Hutte.
It’s going to be cold tomorrow in fact it’s going to be cold until next
weekend according to the latest weather forecast. I might have a lie in tomorrow morning and
go for the paper at 11.00 when the sun is higher and the air warmer. In the meantime I am seriously thinking of
that ironing.... no I’ll leave it until tomorrow, and have a mug of chocolate instead.
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| Happy looking auld guy? |
When
Sylvia, Matthew and I were talking this morning we talked about how the air was
cleaner because of the huge drop in pollutants in the atmosphere. Since then I got round to thinking of the
first morning I woke up out in New Zealand (six years ago). ‘M’ and I went out to the garden to have
coffee and what was the first thing I noticed... and commented on?..... how
crystal clear the sky was; it was so
obviously clean. I was looking at our sky this afternoon and I do
believe that it is beginning to have that crystal clear blue look too. Do we have to go back to our ‘normal’ polluting
ways?
