Overcast with heavy drizzle .....

21st September 2024 (Saturday)    09.15 .... It is not a pretty morning.   The scenery is just as

bonnie as ever, but the sky is overcast and the drizzle is much heavier than it was yesterday at this time.   Anyway I've been for the paper and had a run to the harbour.    Funnily enough, in spite of the drizzle it isn't cold:  that said it isn't a pleasant morning to be out.   All the Fife Weather cams are showing overcast skies, with no promising signs.  Hopefully the drizzle will fade away by lunchtime like it did yesterday.    Sunny spells?..... I'm always hopeful, but I won't be looking for the sun cream.   This is going to be a computer and old postcards day!



20.30    This has been a funny old day:  I ended up cleaning and tidying the kitchen... a job that never featured in today's plan.   In fact it rarely features in any 'plan'.   Anyway for some strange it all began when I sorted out the fridge magnets.    By the time I'd done the kitchen the drizzle had stopped but the wind had freshened and it felt much colder than when I was 'damp but warm' at the harbour in the morning.   I'd looked out the 'hurdy gurdy' with the intention of taking it for another short walk, but the air was too cold.   
I fancied a cappuccino so made that, and read the paper.   By this time it was lunch time;  I ate stuff (quiche Lorraine) and browsed the TV guide that came with the paper.   Would you believe it I found something I fancied watching; an Episode of 'Inside the Tower of London', which was followed by 'The Great Plague of 1665'.   I enjoyed going round the Tower of London again;  and it was perfect weather for watching a documentary about the Plague.

22.15   I've been watching 'Strictly come Dancing' ..... a bit different from an Eightsome Reel in Colinsburgh Toon Hall!.   
Although the weather is a bit dreary just now I'm finding plenty to keep me occupied.   Tomorrow I'm visiting Alice, and I might do some shopping though I don't really need anything:  the weather is going to be much as it was today.   The Midland of England is being clobbered with thunder and lightning just now, but I think that is supposed to clear away by midnight.  
It's time to make the Horlicks then into bed wi' my book.... 'The villages of Fife' by Raymond Lamont-Brown.   Interesting book.... and useful for research.  

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