Crackin' mornin' ....
21st May 2022 (Saturday) 07.30 ....I’m feeling frolicsome and we have a
beautiful morning for frolicking: It’s warm and sunny with a brisk breeze from the southwest..... so... it’s a good day for doing my measuring at Kinneuchar; and visiting Shona. I’m having a cuppa before getting the bike oot and bumbling round the villages. I’m going to have another cuppa.
11.00 It is a cracker o’ a mornin’ and I have
been out enjoying it. I will go up to
Kinneuchar after morrrrrning coffee (and after the bike battery is charged). I bought a couple of scones to take up to
Shona, though I have still to get the paper (didn’t have room in the bag after
I’d been to the baker. I’m going to
check the progress with the battery charging.... and have a cuppa and a goodie
(not one of Shona’s scones).
19.38 The bike battery wasn’t fully charged until lunch time and, by that time the sky clouded had over so I never went to Kinneuchar. What I did do was research medieval churches. I bought ‘How to Read a Church by Richard Taylor, an excellent book that covers the whole subject in depth, when Jim and I were part of a team recording kirks for ‘Scotland’s Churches’ a few years ago. So the day wasn’t wasted; and I have a fully charged bike for tomorrow morning.
Even
though it was cloudier it has been a nice day, though slightly cooler than it
was this morning. I’ll going out first
thing tomorrow morning; it seems that’s
the best time of day for me. Fatigue
sets in after lunch.
21.30 Funnily enough I’ve enjoyed today even though I haven’t been physically active; research is always interesting. I am working from sketches, done in 1818 by Mr J Sime, of the kirk that replaced the pre reformation one; adapting what remained of the auld kirk and erecting a kirk to suit the new rules of the Protestant religion. To that end I am going to come up with a ground plan, based on Mr Sime’s sketches, and ground plan, of the kirk they built;
and a plan of what I think the pre reformation kirk would have looked like. All local pre Reformation kirks were all based on a standard internal ‘plan’....with individual local differences according to how rich the congregation was. It was skilled medieval masons that built the arches we see at Kinneuchar.
