Mild and misty ....

22nd October 2022 (Saturday)   08.15 .... the Fife weather cams are all


grey this morning; so we have a misty, and mild, start to the day after some overnight rain;  ‘light rain and a gentle breeze is the forecast.    I’ll take the car up to Elie for the paper later in the morning....I'm meeting Alice off the bus ...I need to make an appointment with Lorraine (hairdresser).

Who is Alice?  Alice’s husband George and I met when we finished our National Service (1960), and began working together with Rolland Decorators of Leven, then  Rolland  Decorators of Elie, before working with Stevenson and Horsburgh (Anstruther) on building sites around Fife and Central Scotland.   George and I ‘split up' (1980 ish) when I got a job at the Craw’s Nest (Anstruther) and George with Silberline (Leven).   George, Alice and by this family, lived in Colinsburgh when working locally, then moved to Leven when George started working with Silberline.   Alice is from a farming


background, her Dad was a horseman on Balbuthie (John Cameron) and other farms around the East Neuk.    Farm workers moved around in those days.   Sadly George passed away in March of this year;  and Alice and I, our families having been friends for many years, enjoy each other's company (Alice is a good listener) and meet up regularly to reminisce and cheer each other up. 

 20.00    It has been a misty day.... and really warm for the time of year; but we did have a spell of light rain in the afternoon.   I met Alice off the bus then louped into the car and had run down to the harbour before going to Ivy for morrrrrrrrning coffee.  After that we browsed some photographs on the computer before having lunch.   Alice brought along Scotch Broth and it was tasty;   I am now in the  Scorch Broth making mood so will get the necessary  ingredients and make a batch, in the slow cooker, for freezing.  Apparently

Alice 

the slow cooker is one of the best and cheapest ways to ‘batch cook’ the kind of food that I like.   We had Scotch Broth and some pizza kind o’ thing I fished out of the freezer for lunch ;  there’s nae wrinkles on Puku (Maori - ‘stomach’) tonight.

‘Light rain showers with a moderate breeze’ is the forecast for tomorrow....with a ‘high’ chance of precipitation in the afternoon.   Showers mean sunny spells in the bits between the showers so it could be a bonnie day.

 

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