Damp morning ....

24th June 2025 (Tuesday)    08.30 .... After the cold wind we had yesterday, it's nice to have a

quiet, albeit misty and damp, and warmer morning.    The light rain/mist is going to melt away by morning coffee time, the sky should break up to give us brighter, and a slightly breezier (and brighter) afternoon.  It's not going to be as windy as it was yesterday so it will feel warmer.   This is going to be a completely lazy, 'play day' for me;  the auld muscles need a rest.   I might take the scooter out in the afternoon.   

15.00    I'm having another cuppa while I type this update.   Janet, my sister, phoned a couple of hours ago to tell me that Derek (my younger, painter and decorator, brother) had collapsed and died this morning.  This shocking, and devastating, 'News', knocked me for six.   I promptly had a mug of sweet tea to help me come to some kind of terms with this shock.   Derek is the youngest of the family... me being the oldest.  It's only 6 weeks ago that Derek painted Ivy Cottage gable .... because I  am not fit enough to climb  ladders now.   My thoughts and prayers are with Eileen, Michelle, Siobhan and the Colinsburgh 'Troops';  and all the Anderson and Lawrie Families, and relations, friends, and neighbours at this sad time.   I'm going to get the bike out.

I've already watered the tubs to give me something to do: and, after this cuppa I am going to take the bike and have a run up to Chapel Green;  my unwinding place, with the camera.   I can't take the Scooter because of the rains showers.

22.00    This has been a shocking and sad day for me, and for all of us who knew Derek.   In my case it immediately brought back the numbness I felt when I suddenly lost Maggie.  I eventually sorted myself out, got the bike out and went up to Chapel Green to have some 'quiet time' with 'The Boss'.   I took a batch of photographs to play with later, then biked back to Ivy.   I met and chatted to Kirsty.  Before parting, Kirsty reminded me that we're going to the Leven Golfing Society for lunch on Thursday.  

In the evening I went 'roond the Ferry' on the Mobility Scooter;  the village was quiet.  Actually it was

breezy and chillier than I expected.    Not as chilly as it had been on the bike in the afternoon.

I have no 'plan' for tomorrow.   I'll make the Horlicks and have a look at the 'News' then get off to bed and read my book.

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