Rabbie Burns anniversary ....
25th
January 2021 (Monday)
....
but pleasures are like poppies spread,
You
seize the flower, its bloom is shed,
Or
like the snow-fall in the river –
A
moment white – then melts forever.
Robert Burns – Tam O’
Shanter.
10.00 I have had a walk to and along the beach,
on what is a really gorgeous and peaceful morning....but there’s a cool
air. It was so peaceful.... and a few
folk came out to enjoy it.
262
years ago today ‘The Bard’ Rabbie Burns was born .... I imagine there will, be
a Burns Supper on the tele tonight. The
lines above are from one Tam O’ Shanter,.... a ‘must do at all Burn’s Suppers.
20.30 Today is the furthest that I have travelled in the car since, the first Coronavirus lockdown began; to the Adamson Hospital in Cupar to have my PSA blood test taken. The journey was uneventful.... until I joined Back Lebanon street in Cupar; there was a sign with ‘Road Closed’ on it! I thought,.... ‘no, Fife Council wouldn’t close the road to the hospital, without showing a diversion’, so on I went.... and came to a queue of cars waiting at temporary traffic lights. The lights were at a bend on the road, so we couldn’t see the other end of the road works. Five minutes later a lady comes walking
through from the other end to look at our light: both lights were at ‘Red’; (safer than if they had both been at ‘Green’). She waved her husband.... and the others through, then our side went through. I got the hospital, and was ‘in and out’ in five minutes. The lights were still at ‘red’ when I reached them on the way out of Cupar. Apart from that, the roads were quiet. There had been a lot of snow at Peat Inn, and the pot holes were all in the right places; I’d say that I actually enjoyed today’s run out in the car.
The
Volkswagen doesn’t freewheel as good as my other cars; it stopped on the wee incline before
Pitcorthie House. In the other cars I
could ‘freewheel’, from just south of the Lathallan turn off to Robin Gray’s
cottage! It’s exciting being ‘me’.
I had a cuppa when I arrived back home then had a quick wander to the beach at sunset
time. It was a bonnie sunset.... not spectacular but peaceful and bonnie. It was good seeing folk walking on the beach.
