Bright and breezy ....
12th
September 2022 (Monday) 07.30 .... we have a bonnie
Photo courtesy BBC TV.
morning, though
everything is wet after overnight rain: it was raining at 04.30 but all is good
now. I am expecting a good drying
day and intend taking advantage of
that; I’ll have a quick bumble round the
villages.... once the washing is on the
line; I’m thinkin’ it could be warm in
the afternoon, even with a frisky breeze from the West.
21.30 It was
warm in the afternoon; too warm for me being active, but I managed to empty the
shelves in the boiler cupboard, ready for the boiler being serviced on
Wednesday afternoon. The remainder of
the afternoon I watched HM The Queen being moved from Holyrood Palace to St
Giles Cathedral.... and the service that followed. There’s much sadness around the
country; it’s surprising just how emotional
this can be... even watching it from afar on the tele. It’s
very poignant.
Photo courtesy BBC TV.
Before
lunch I decided to refuel the car (Colinsburgh) then went to ‘The Store’
(Anstruther) to buy a few messages. The
Store was busy... and was getting busier as I was leaving; the Waid pupils were
on their lunch break! I came home by the
‘back road’ to avoid temporary traffic lights between the Dreel brig and the
roundabout at the top o’ Roger Street.
To be honest, I like coming home that way (the back road) for a change o’
scene.
It
has been a perfect ‘drying day’ and washing I did this morning dried in ‘nae
time’; in fact I’ll iron the bits and pieces
that need ironing after this update.
Tomorrow is going to be ‘sunny with a gentle breeze’ ... so another good
drying day... and I have nae washing to do.
Actually the next few days are likely to all be good ‘drying days’ so I’ll
wash towels later in the week.
Although
I feel that I haven’t done anything I have been fairly active around Ivy; HM is
The Scottish Crown (courtesy BBC TV)
being moved south to London late tomorrow
afternoon, so I won’t be watching so much tele after that....oh I’ll keep an eye on what is happening in
London but it will feel remote and ‘not our Scottish Queen’. I will watch the final dat at Westminster Abbey. The past few days we have been mourning losing
our beloved ‘Queen of Scots’: down south, for some obscure reason, HM becomes
Queen Elizabeth II; that’s something I
can’t understand as HM was in fact, as I’ve said before, the first ‘Queen
Elizabeth’ of the United Kingdom. 1707
saw the uniting of Scotland with England which formed the Kingdom of Britain; then in 1801 Ireland joined and this created
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. I’m
not being pedantic about all this; I
like thing to be historically correct. And
...yes, I do know why England uses the regnal number II, but I’d like someone to
clarify its usage re the United kingdom.
Never mind, HM gave permission to
be known as the ‘Queen of Scots’.... and nae regnal number required.
