Bright and sunny ....

23rd February 2023 (Thursday)      08.45 .... we have a ‘bright and sunny’


morning with a light breeze;  it’s a bonnie drying day..... a really good morning for walking.   The air is cool after a touch of early frost but that has gone with the sun.... so the washing won’t freeze.  It’s just too cold for me going out on the bike .... I might do that later in the afternoon.  

19.00    Now that Alice is recovering from COVID I decided that the time was ripe to pop along to Methil to annoy her.   After a cuppa and catch up blether we went to Leven to have a look round the newly expanded B & M’s shop.   Although open for business it has yet to be properly stocked up;  many of the shelves in the new bit (the former Argos store) are full of various sizes of storage containers so not really very interesting.     However, once it is fully stocked up and operational it will be a useful shop.   We each bought a few bits and pieces but then did our proper shopping in the nearby ‘Cheap Shop’.     Back at Alice’s we had a bowl of soup and another cuppa.


The temporary traffic lights are still operational on Largo Road at the top of Scoonie Brae:  however I noticed on the way home that it looked like the road was being reinstated .... so that road might be clear of temporary traffic lights soon.   But...for how long?

22.00   I was talking to Tom and Natalie’s gardeners and they were telling me that the sad looking part of the laurel hedge is being replaced, (by the suppliers) due to frost damage to the root balls before planting.   The original part of the hedge is looking braw... and the whole hedge will look really good by summer.  

Calumn is coming along tomorrow and we’re going to the Ship Inn for a bar meal and  a blether.   Calumn was my apprentice at the Craw’s Nest:  he now works in Health and Safety for an oil company.

It’s good to have Alice back in action again;  she has a lot of friends who appreciate


Alice dropping in to cheer them up.  I just realised the other day that one of her neighbours was a fellow craft worker that Maggie and I knew well when we were members of ‘Fife Craft Association’ and ‘Made in Fife’.

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