Nice morning .....

4th June 2026 (Thursday)     09.15 ..... After a dull, wet start to the morning the sky is beginning to

break up, with a lot of blue bits beginning to show:  we should have sunny spells soon.   And a more breathable air.    Gills were required to extract oxygen from the muggy, wet air we had first thing.   Heavy showers are mentioned in the weather forecast;  but they might miss us.   I hope they do.   The 'plan' was to go to Methil, and Leven today, but that has been put back on the shelf until the weather settles down.   

14.30    Twice I  thought of going up to the sear at the 17th green with the camera;  and both times a shower started just after I got to the gate.   And it looks like another shower is coming in soon.

I phoned Alice to tell her I wouldn't be visiting today;  and found that Alice is 'under the weather' too.   In my case I think it's the weather that's the problem;  as if there's thunder in the air;  and that needs to happen, to clear the air.

The morning hasn't been a total loss;  I did some weeding before the showers arrived;  and, this surprised me: the sheet that I hung out last night was almost dry, so it is now in The Hutte, where it will stay until tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow's weather forecast is  more promising;  i.e. fewer showers.   

I've decided to take a couple of pills to get rid of this thundery headache.  That means I'll need a cuppa to wash the pills doon. 

19.30   This has been a strange old day for me.   I managed to do some, much needed, weeding in between the showers, but everything has been 'hard work'.  The 'under the weather' feeling I've had, since I woke up, was  a surprise;  a disappointing surprise, because I felt better last night.   I'm blaming the changeable weather.    I suppose it could still be an after effect of the booster I had two weeks ago

I have no 'plan'  for tomorrow;  I'll see how I feel in the morning, but I think tomorrow might be a
'potter around Ivy' day.  

I never got up to the seat at the 17th green, because of the threat of showers and the frisky wind, so today's photographs are from the garden and the Frameo.

Top and Bottom photies;  Ivy garden.   Maggie would have been happy with the Lilac this year.   It's the first time it has actually looked like a proper Lilac tree.   It's getting seriously pruned at the end of the season.

Middle photie:  the face of an 'Orange Bearded Bluebottle taken by Iain (Lawrie).   It's a challenging subject photographing insects, 'in the wild', and he enjoys doing ir.   When you see the face of the Bluebottle with that detail, the amazing complexity, of the life on our Planet, becomes mind boggling.   'Bluebottles' aren't  just insects that spend a lot of time buzzing aimlessly around, looking for a window to bash their their brains against;  they are, as all life forms are, a complicated collection of living cells.... just like us!