Fiona's Quiet Life

PUFFING

A truly magical day, first the women’s 10K came run­ning past, the first one was here 4 minutes after the start. thou­sands of them came, all shapes, sizes and ages. the Marie curie nurses that came to watch Basil some nights when i was in des­per­ate need of sleep, stopped to give me a hug, then went run­ning on their way to raise money so that they can provide more much need help to the exhausted.
then by quarter to 11 they were all gone and the mop up bus was passed.
so thought i , i can join the rest of the intrepid pho­to­graph­ers in anstruther. so i quickly made up some rolls for lunch and set off along the M8,across the forth Road bridge and down the coast road, there were some very heavy showers of rain and i thought myself daft to be doing it and i was con­vinced that i would arrive just as the boat chugged out of har­bour but no ‚per­fect timing.….….…..getting on board with a broken ankle and crutches was another mat­ter , but noth­ing stops me when determ­ined.
the weather was lovely, the birds were many, i stayed near the wee har­bour on the isle of may and let the birds come to me.….by this time i had blisters on the palms of my hands from the crutches.….….then 50 minute boat trip back to anstruther , where most of our party queued at the fam­ous fish and chip shop, but four of us went to a place called water­front and had a good old Scot­tish high tea. it was superb.
two hours drive home arriv­ing at 10 p.m.….….…..i am very tired but it was good

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