Windy with squally showers
23rd
May 2020 (Saturday) 06.30 ....
My word we have had one wild
night and it’s even going to be wilder for
most of today; with the wind finally slackening off later in the afternoon. For some reason Braemar, one of the cruise
ships moored off Aberlady Bay, sailed out of the Firth yesterday evening and is
now “12 NM out of the Firth of Forth” East of May Island. Strange manoeuvre. It has
been wild overnight and we now have rain blowing through in the wind ; the wind is F8 in Largo Bay just now, so not
a nice morning at all.
08.00 Bad hair day?..... it’s worse than
that; even my eyebrows are lookin’ wild. I could trim them though.... that’s another
wee job for today. I’ve been for the
paper and gave the car a wee run home via Kinneuchar so that’s me in Ivy for
the remainder of the day: having said that
the wind is supposed to moderate in the evening so I might get out on the bike
then. If the rain peters out I might
take a walk up the street and  |
| Windy with rain now and again - not pleasant; but interesting. |
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| Fresh green leaves all over the road. |
10.00 Jings I keep falling asleep in front of
the computer so I’m going to have a ‘kip’:
the gale kept waking me up overnight and the lack of sleep is catching
up with me now (I was ‘up’ at my usual time ... 05.30), however I’m wasting my
time trying to do stuff on the computer when tired., ‘cos I can’t concentrate. I’ll see what’s on Channel 81 ..... and most
likely fall asleep watching whatever I do find.
13.00 ‘The Boy’ (that’s me) has just surfaced after nearly two hours deep sleep on top on the bed in the computer room; I must have been tired right enough. The weather has improved in the time I’ve been asleep: we have sunny spells and the wind seems to have decreased .... though not by much. The ‘plan’ is to have a cuppa then go for that short walk I promised myself.
13.00 ‘The Boy’ (that’s me) has just surfaced after nearly two hours deep sleep on top on the bed in the computer room; I must have been tired right enough. The weather has improved in the time I’ve been asleep: we have sunny spells and the wind seems to have decreased .... though not by much. The ‘plan’ is to have a cuppa then go for that short walk I promised myself.
18.30 The walk I had in the afternoon was shorter
than I meant it to be .... it started to spit rain. We’ve had sunny spells in the afternoon but
the wind has been round about F7-8 most of the time with clouds scuttling over
that sometimes gave us rain.
I
haven’t done much today; I am not keen
on strong winds such as we’ve had for the past 36 hours.... they stress me
out. Thankfully the wind should begin
to moderate soon and be back a more normal strength tomorrow.
I
happened to watch a bit of the Coronavirus Update this afternoon and was
appalled
to see how the government defended the ... oh I forget his name but he
looks like Gollum.... the latest ‘setter of rools’ who broke them. You have to give politicians credit for one
thing .... they don’t teach by example. I
normally don’t watch the daily update because it’s just political ‘spin’; thought up by people like ‘Gollum’. Cummings... that’s his name.... Dominic
Cummings. That’s the moan over; I feel better now. You now known why I don’t watch the
update; choosing instead to read my
paper (Scotsman) and browse a few sites online.
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| Elie Bay this afternoon. |
Tomorrow
I am looking forward to biking along for the paper... and coming home via Elie
Estate.
20.00 I have been watching 13 minute video taken
on Dumbarnie
Links golf course; my word I can see
that being one popular course. To think
that before myxomatosis it was one huge rabbit warren; it will be a challenging course even for the
pro’s... especially when the wind gets up a bit.
