Threat of sunny spells ....
24th December 2021 (Friday) 10.00 .... We had our first sunny spell of
the day at 09.37.... and the forecast is good for more, in the afternoon. I’ll go for a short walk after my morrrrrrrning cuppa; there’s field being ploughed just up the road, so I’ll walk as far as that ‘action’. It’s the only activity I can see from the garden, though there will be loads of other work being done around the farms.
12.30 I wandered up the road and met Andy (local
farmer) who was ploughing the field that had been fertilised (Spread with dung)
a couple of days ago. Andy is 82 and
still does a day’s work on the farm(s); one
of three brothers who have three farms in the area (680 plus acres).
New Aberdour beach.
19.00 This being a ‘bright and sunny’ day, we
went up to New Aberdour Beach for a wander around. The beach reminded me of some of the beaches
on the Pacific Coast of New Zealand, where huge rollers come in from the Ocean
and thump onto a pebbly shore. Although
the rollers coming in at New Aberdour weren’t huge today, they were huge enough
to move the pebbles around creating the distinctive noise you get from this
kind of beach. It was beautiful. By this time the sun was being blocked by
clouds now and again bringing a dark, ominous, look to the beach ....it was
beautiful in a differently way. Jackie
and Catriona walked along the path towards the Eastern cliffs, I saw a tree on
the beach that I had to photograph: it
too reminded me of New Zealand beaches; everyone of which seems to have trees
and parts of tree scattered along them.
Probably a side effect of the logging industry in New Zealand. We will be back on this beach again; on a warm and sunny summer’s day. That said, it wasn't cold there today, probably because there was only a light wind.
