Showery and cold ....

4th June 2025 (Wednesday)    09.00 .... 'Sunny intervals with a moderate wind' is the weather

forecast for KY9;  it's the bits in between the sunny intervals that can be annoying.   Right now we have a squally shower rattling over.   Luckily the showers are moving fast, and are to fade away altogether (well near enough) by lunch time.    I'll have an early lunch.    

Last night I went to bed planning to get up early to photograph a tree;  that 'plan' has been amended because.... (a) I overslept and (b) the heavy showers.    However, I've had a long hot shower, to get rid of  stiff muscles caused by working (garden) on Monday.   Now I am ready to go out to play.... but not until the afternoon. 

10.00     Well that shower was; either a cloud with a big diameter, or a long skinny cloud, because it lasted longer than I expected.   I won't have to water the tubs this evening!   I've been looking at the Upper Largo weather cam and it is showing a large area of blue sky coming our way.   

Elie Friendship Lunch.
Myra has been on the phone to tell me that this is the Elie 'Friendship Lunch' Elie today.   I might go to that; but I've just had a migraine (weather), so I'll see how I feel nearer the time:  which is 12.30.   That's when Myra will be passing down Ferry Road, and would pick me up.

19.15    It's a while since I was at the Elie Friendship Lunch;  probably October.  Certainly before the wet weather set in.   Anyway I enjoyed catching up with 'Mac' (Mackie Housing).   Mac is 95 now and always looks dapper....  reminds me of Poirot.   We had soup and filled rolls, accompanied by loads of friendly chatter.... and tea or  coffee.   And, I didn't have to make 'dinner' tonight as the left over rolls were handed out.   

After 'dinner' I took the car up to Colinsburgh to fill it up with fuel;  then came home by way of

'The tree'.
Balchrystie;  stopping to get a photo of the tree' I mentioned above.   The story about that tree I found interesting.  I'd noticed that the tree was growing out of a fallen trunk of a tree.... and was showing Jimmy (sometimes Jems) the photographs I'd taken,and he told me that;  "The original tree blew down in a gale, just before the War, and the trunk was left lying after the branches had been taken for firewood".   At that time that "field' was  a rabbit warren, and was until Myxomatosis was introduced in the UK and decimated the rabbit population.   Not an exciting 'story' but, to me, an interesting one.   I must try to find the original photographs I took 10 years or so ago.


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