Heavy rain ....

27th January 2025 (Monday)    (Holocaust Remembrance Day)   

 08.45 .... The rain had stopped when I put out the bucket 15 minutes ago; let's hope that's it for the day..... 

in fact lets hope for a sunny spells later:  there are blue patches in the Lochgelly cam!.... and there's more oxygen in the air this morning (yesterday was abysmal) so I'm feeling almost playful.   Unfortunately it's not a morning to go out playing.    I plan on going to Leven and Methil because Alice needs annoying .... and I'll do a small shopping in Leven.

21.30     I had an enjoyable morning with Alice;  and her neighbour  Barbara who came over to update Alice about the repairs to the blown fences etc..... and ended up staying and  chatting for almost an hour. 

 Alice and I had been to Sainsbury's to do some shopping earlier, and after Barbara left, Alice dished up a tasty fish in a sauce lunch (she spoils me), followed by dessert and coffee.   The weather had changed, from the earlier grey and wet, to a bonnie sunny day;  so we all felt better.  

I had frozen stuff in the car boot so left Alice's immediately after coffee.  When driving along Leven Prom I noticed that there was a mass of threatening looking greyness towards the southeast;  with Elie and Earlsferry in the immediate foreground.   I wish now that I'd gone into a car park to take a photo.   I got back home just as the cloud began to hide the sun;  got the messages in and the kettle 'on' then fell sleep.   When I woke up it was raining and we ended up with a miserable afternoon.   It's not raining now... and the forecast is better for tomorrow..... "light cloud and a gentle breeze".


Tomorrow I'm going to get my case organised for travelling up to Auchnagatt on Thursday.   Iain is coming down to get me, and do a temporary fix of the rhone.   I'll organise someone to do the roof ridge, but that will happen once the emergency jobs have been done.   Water can't get into Ivy as things are at the moment.

I watched "The Forgotten Tunes of Auschwitz" by Leo Geyer, a young British composer, earlier this evening.   It was really interesting and well done knitting together of lost music that he found in the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum Archive.  This documentary wasn't politized;  as tends to happen with 'official' memorials nowadays.  I worked with a former soldier who was one of the first to enter the Belsen Concentration Camp;  he told me that the horrors of what he saw there gave him nightmares,

and this was many  years after the war.    

You'd think humanity would learn from such horrific evil;  sadly the world has been flooded with weapons of war, so we have 'wars', and 'wars' lead to the killing of innocent people;  though not with the specific intent of mass murder, as at Auschwitz / Birkenau.   But the killing of innocent men women and children goes on... albeit 'accidentally.   But just as 'dead', and should be unacceptable in a humane society.   It's amazing when you think about it;  humanity has yet to learn that the first 'victim' of any war is 'Peace'.

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