Lovely morning ....

1st Feb 2023 (Wednesday)   08.45....Thankfully the wind has moderated


overnight and, we have a ‘bright and breezy’ morning;  a good drying day.    The reminds me I have a washing to hang out.  I’m feeling ‘bright eyed and bushy tailed’ and might have a walk to the beach... depending on how frolicsome (and cool) the wind is;  and after I've hung out the washing.   

19.00    Well... I never went to the beach but I have been active(ish)... on what has been a beautiful, if slightly cool, day.   It has been a beautiful drying day and the washing dried in ‘nae time’... and has been ironed.  

I sat and chatted with ‘Mac’ at the ‘Friendship Lunch’;  we were eventually joined by Myra

and Diane.   Our table was noisy;  but not as noisy as a ‘girls’ table at the other side of the hall.   Laughter and banter is a sure sign of a happy gathering.  After the Lunch I went home and had a cuppa, before loupin' intae the car and go to the chemist to pick up my prescription.    I fancied a run up to Kinneuchar to get a few photos of the kirk and browse the gravestones.    It was 16.00 by the time I got back to Ivy Cottage;  which is when I brought in and ironed the washing.


22.30   The bathroom kitchen and lobby floors were going to be washed today; but I discovered that my sponge mop had very little sponge left on it; I remember thinking to myself the last time I used that I would buy a new heid  (for the mop handle... not for me) the next time I was in B & M’s ....or the ‘Cheap Shop’.   I’m hoping to buy just the mop heid;  I now have three mop haundles in the shed with nae heids:  It’s hard work bein’ me.


At long last I have booked an appointment to have my eyes tested by Govan Optometrists (Anstruther)... on the 9th February. I last had my eyes tested two years ago by Specsavers;  having been lured in by the ‘two for the price of one’ blurb.  I wasn’t impressed by Specsavers: I went in with the intention of going back the days when I had a distance set of glasses and a reading set; not varifocals.  I don’t think older eyes can cope with varifocals. The ‘plan’ is to ask whoever tests my eyes in Anstruther, if my thinking about varifocals is wrong.


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