13th
June 2020 (Saturday) 06.30 ....Dearie me .... we have a misty
start to
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| He is a lonely looking boy. |
the day but the sun should burn it back by mid morning leaving us with
sunny spells and light showers. The
wind is light... and ... (as ever it seems nowadays) from the Easterly
direction but not cold. I think it
will have to be the car to go for the paper because it’s one of those skies out of
which spits and spots of rain could come at any time.
08.30 Taking the car was a good idea; the fog turned to wetting Scotch Mist.... so
it’s not a pleasant morning just now. I’ve
got the paper, and a packet of Werther’s Originals (yep – it’s that kind of morning)...
been to the harbour and the car is now moored up for the rest of the weekend
hopefully. The villages are busy, in
fact there was a queue at the ‘paper shop’ at 06.45. The ‘community’ we had in Earlsferry for the past 10 weeks or
so has been swamped.... and I was enjoying the friendliness of it all.
We’re
supposed to have ‘sunny spells with light rain showers’ by lunch time but I don’t
think I’ll be going out on the bike today.... the streets and roads will be far
too busy by then. The way the weather
is just now it’s a morning for the computer, reading the paper and finding
something decent to watch on the tele.
I haven’t been up to unlock The
Hutte yet.
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| Felix at Ivy Cottage gate. |
17.00 When I was in the kitchen this afternoon,
sorting out my last batch of mince for Shepherd’s Pies, I suddenly heard the bagpipes then saw Felix
passing the kitchen window. I grabbed
the wee camera and rushed to the front door to find Felix’s Mum (why didn’t I
ask her name?) at the door with scones and Felix playing the pipes at the front
gate. Up till this point I’d been
bemoaning the fact that the ‘sunny spells’ forecast for today had been somewhat
sparse (none) .... until now....
suddenly my day had brightened and I was no longer ‘down in the dumps’. Lately I have been really enjoying feeling
part of a local community; a community that
has been knitted together by the ‘Clap Hands for Carers’ when lots of people
appeared on the street at 19.00 to show appreciation, of the work done by Doctors,
Nurses, and Carers all over the UK during this COVID-19 crisis. The contribution by Felix and Hamish (our pipers)
was absolutely brilliant and huge .... they could lay claim to having 'done a lot of the
knitting' that gave us our ‘new Earlsferry'. I'm lovin' it.
19.00 Well ... although the weather has been grey
with a slight brightening of the sky in the evening I have enjoyed myself.... thanks
mostly to Felix and his mum this afternoon.
The Shepherd’s Pies I was in the
process of doing are ready for the
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| The harbour. |
freezer:
so that too has cheered me up no end.
I can't leave the kitchen for any length of time nowadays when
cooking; not without a timer to remind
me of the fact. Its a few years since I
burnt mince: I threw the pan out.
Tomorrow
is going to be another grey day so I might have a lie in; the forecast doesn’t make me think ‘bike’.
