Bright and breezy ....

14th November 2025 (Friday)    10.00 .... We have a beautiful, albeit chilly, start to the

weekend:  there's a wintry feel to the air, and snow on the mountain tops.   At the moment the temperature is 4.1C on the patio;  but it will feel much colder out in the open.    I won't be going 'out into the open'.  There are some bonnie, wintry looking clouds.   Actually, I might wrap up and have a walk up to the golf course:  it's far to cold for me to go out on The Buggy just now.   .That reminds me;  I must phone Mercury Motors to find out about the car.

19.00    The highest temperature on the patio today was only 8.2C;  the squally showers kept blotting out the sun.    The same squally showers gave us some interesting clouds;  so I was a 'happy boy'.  

I phoned the garage at morning coffee time!   The car was ready to uplift so I then phoned Myra to ask if she could take me along to Mercury.   Myra said 'aye', she would do that, so I arranged to meet her at the phone box.   'Thank You' Myra!.... I now have the car back.  There wasn't much needed doing because since the RAC got it going and put in a new battery, it has been starting ever since.   Ryan cleaned the connections anyway.

From Mercury I decided to go to Leven shopping:  it had to be on my own as Alice had to to go to Care Home meeting  with her friend.   I went to Sainsbury's!   This is the first time I have gone to Sainsbury's and found all the 'Disabled' Parking spaces full.  Lucky me! .... I found an 'ordinary' space, that had plenty of room for the car door to open wide,  so had no real problem.

I should have known that with the car park being busy, the shop would also be busy.   It was!    I don't

think I have ever seen Sainsbury's  as busy as it was today.   However I blundered my way round and actually got all the items that I had on the list.   That was a bit of luck!   Why?.... because the list was lying on the kitchen table where I'd written it!

There was a long queue for the checkout;  that was the most frustrating time.  I ended up talking to the the lady in front of me, (actually she talked to me about her dog) in the queue. I found out that she came from St Minnins, and her daughter, worked at the Craw's Nest Reception desk.  Talking to her passed the time and I was soon on my way home to 'The Royal Burgh.

I drove through a couple of squally showers on the way home, but they were only short ones ;  and it was fair when I arrived at Ivy.    I got the messages away then had a (late) sandwich lunch before loupin' intae the car to go to the 'hole in the wall', then onto the 'Paper Shop' .... but it was shut.   

 

I went down to the Toft  to tale a few photos of the clouds, then came home by way of Balbuthie and Kinneuchar.  The kettle was switched to the 'on'position and had myself an afternoon coffee, with a 'goodie' that must have fallen into the trolley in Sainsbury's.