Nice morning .....

5th May 2025 (Monday)    09.00 .... There's a chilly breeze from the NW just now, but, being only

a light breeze the windchill effect is less;  so it's not as bitterly cold as it was yesterday.... and, we didn't have a frost last night (minimum 2.4C) and all is good with the Apple blossom.   Although sunny there is a layer of thin cloud, so it should feel warmer when the sun burns off the cloud.    However the breeze is veering to the Easterly direction so it probably won't;  feel warmer i.e.     I'm going to set up the parasol and chairs ready to have morning coffee outside.   The patio is well sheltered from an Easterly breeze.   I thought it was misty this morning;  then I cleaned ma glesses!

19.45  I've had a reasonably busy day;  pottering around Ivy and watching VE 80th  Anniversary Day celebrations.   We were living at Myrebird, Crathes (Castle)  at the time.   Our teacher at Crathes School had a brother in the 8th Army, and kept us up to date with where he was now and again.  Presumably when the family got a letter from him.    

We had a wireless (the aerial strung between the lums)  at home so knew  that the War had ended.   I remember on that day  an aeroplane flying low over our house, with two men sitting in the doorway on the side of the fuselage, with their legs dangling (I know now it was a Dakota) from the plane.  That would be the door that the paratroopers jumped used to 'jump'.   I remember them waving.   I imagine they must have been going somewhere to drop paratroopers on a training exercise.

It was also at Crathes that I saw the lowest ever German plane:  it was painted dark brown and light brown camouflage colours, and I definitely remember the black cross on the fuselage!   Anyway this plane was flying fast, just above the fence posts, and had to climb quickly to get over the wood.   I remember the pilot actually looking at me as he passed .... he was only about 30 metres or so away, at the other side of a fence, and  just below my level.   For some stupid reason I jumped into the ditch!... luckily it was summertime!   I assume now that he was on a mission to shoot something, then head out to sea, and back to Norway.   I have never seen another aeroplane flying as low as that one was.

22.00    I went for a short run in the car this afternoon.... only along by Ardross, then home via 

Balbuthie and Kinneuchar.   The clouds had all gone by that time and it was really bright, as you can see from the photos.   It was really warm at Kinneuchar.  I'm definitely going to visit Shona sometime this week;  I think Wednesday and Thursday are going o be good biking days;  that means light winds.... and,hopefully, warm!


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