Lovely morning .....

18th November 2024 (Monday)    08.15 .... Although cold it isn't freezing cold, because I see the
towels that  I left out last night are dancing around in the breeze;  in fact they look like they might be dry.   I'll have a wander up to the washing line after breakfast.   I'm feeling 'brighter eyed and bushier tailed' than I have done for the past couple of days.... I might even visit the harbour when I go for the paper.  That reminds me .... I have my prescription ready to hand in.

12.15   I went to Elie (in the car) to hand n my prescription... and forgot the paper.   Nothing new there.   Instead of going to the harbour I went out to Woodhaven Car Park for a change.   It's a bonnie, bright and breezy, but cold day.    There's a wintry feel to the wind.

20.00    At sunset time I went out to up to the golf course to catch the sunset: but changed my mind when I saw that the car roof  was a mess of white stuff.    In looking closer I realised that a sea gull, a big seagull wi' a sair gu... stomach had deposited the innards of, what must have been sair stomach, on
the car roof. I don't know if that seagull actually had a sair stomach, but one thing I do know.... it isn't constipated!   Anyway I washed the mess off the car.... and will might take the car through the car wash tomorrow.   I never got up to the golf course.

A contented -'Sorley John McKinnon'.
It has been cold all day, but there's a raw feel  to the wind tonight (I was out admiring the clean car);  so we're in for a cold night .... and another cold day tomorrow.   I watched Guy Martin  ("How Britain Worked") in the afternoon;  it was so interesting that I didn't fall asleep.   He was helping renovate an old mill in Yorkshire.... and built a wooden bike, using the tools and machinery of the mill to cut manufacture the necessary bits.   The bike was based on an original wooden bike, built by Kirkpatrick MacMillan, Dumfriesshire in 1839.  
 
22.30  My word ...it's cold tonight.  I'm going to tuck myself into bed with my 'bedtime book', the 'Annals of Colinsburgh'.   I might have a 'sleep in' if it's awfie cold in the morning!    This has been abetter day for me;  I'm obviously shaking off whatever 'bug' I had.
Fife is included in Yellow warning for snow and ice tonight;  it isn't going to be cosy tomorrow.

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