Pirate's best track bike is hopefully on its way to a new home..my club mate collected it today...she is going to a track session that the other girl goes to...she needs to have her own bike to race.
Good to have a good natter over fresh coffee, and shortbread.
Nothing got done outside today, as although it was sunny it was icy underfoot.
Then " chatting " earlier in the evening by message with a couple of friends.
Not as good as in person, but certainly lightened the mood.
Just found a quote with this explanation
"This saying is because less cold air (around 0c to 2c at the surface), is usually associated with more frontal activity. Whereas colder temperatures of -5c and below are usually associated with low humidity. This is most true in the UK, where the source of snow is from atlantic moisture and slightly milder temperatures. However in more continental countries, such as eastern Europe and the central northern US, snow occurs more often at colder temperatures."
Which doesn't address polar snow....but it is a start!
Today the garage man wasn't happy with the calipers from his usual supplier....or the price....so they are going back and he will get others elsewhere.
So no travelling until at least the middle of next week... probably best to postpone for a full week, but I will see what the weather will be up to!!
Which gives me more time to get on with things.
I went on the bus to town to get some de-icer..and was pleased to get trigger spray bottles, not cans.
The snow had turned to cold rain showers....but as I did some sewing tonight I heard what sounded like hail against the windows...I was NOT going to investigate!!
I am mending a long sleeve cycling top of Pirate's, which will either be nice for the retro cycle ride at the end of May...or if it is too big for me will fit our Friend in France...who was also Pirate's clubmate over fifty years ago....
Pirate fell off his bike!! Many years ago.....good thing he kept it.
This morning it had been so cold overnight, that the car windscreen was frozen outside....and inside, like a sheet of little pimples..I should have taken a photo but was too intent on getting it clear so that I could drive down the hill to the garage!
That left a day to get busy indoors..and today's exercise was going up and down stairs!
I moved Pirate's papers back upstairs to a sideboard and small chest of drawers. There are still two stacks of boxes in the living room...one is bike bits to be cleaned , priced and sold. The other is three boxes of things from his display in his Celebrations..and a box of things to go to his nephew which need cataloguing and photographing.
The long sideboard is looking a lot better too..still a bit cluttered, but some of that is things to go, like the growing group of things in the kitchen..an iron, two kettles, one usual size one two cup size. A two espresso cup filter machine...or one mug...water in, coffee in, switch on and go...empty and wash the filter afterwards...things I don't need..or don't need multiples of!
I called garage at three...he wasn't happy as the parts had been put on the wrong delivery van at the motor factor...and ended up in the wrong direction at Falkirk!! They should have arrived just before he finished tonight, so my wee car will have a night in his garage ready for first job tomorrow.
The living room carpet has been vacuumed, the place looks reasonable..and at four in the afternoon we had our snow shower... described as "dandruff" by a friend in the middle of England who has a fair bit more!!
We have the coldest start to Winter for a while.. yesterday I stayed indoors all day, it was not just cold, but had a dank feel to the air...so just this and that.. recovering from Sunday's flu and covid jags, letting my body do it's work.
Today has been dry underfoot, so once the landfill bin had been collected I ventured out on nice warm buses!
A pleasant chat on the way into town with a woman who moved here five years ago. And a bus connection straight away. I had hoped to do a little fresh food shopping in town, but the co-op is having a refit and won't be reopened for another ten days.
A small bagful of fresh items... some reduced...and I just missed the return bus. I wasn't going to stand there for 25 minutes, so I walked back into Ayr from the nearer edge of Prestwick. Luckily I was wearing a buff so brought that up over my nose to keep the cold air and traffic fumes out.
Just over half an hour later and the bus passed me just before the bridge over the river Ayr.
Then luckily the bus home was ready to leave the bus station!!
Back home to make soup from the leaves and stalks of last week's and this week's (organic) cauliflower, a couple of leeks from the garden, tatties and coconut milk for a nice creamy soup!
I lifted a yellow beet as well....not sure what to do with that for supper... possibly just in a salad!
Now it is cold and getting colder... possibly too cold for snow, but we might get some during tomorrow. Plenty of places in all directions have had snow already.
I'm snuggled up warm on the sofa with a three ginger tea...supper needs to be something quick to make..it's too comfortable here!!
Instead of one long blog post I am doing three!!
Today's steady job has been sorting the kitchen....apart from going for a walk before getting the jags (flu and COVID) at the village community room.
So here is the evidence!!
Step one....with encouragement via WhatsApp with my daughter!!
Most of the whisky boxes folded and in the box...now with packing materials upstairs.
I'm keeping the kettle up there to use on the workshop stove.
The Highdome pressure cookers just need the safety valve, then I can bottle fruit instead of freezing it all. Unfortunately when Prestige changed hands, that valve changed shape and dimensions...I have a new rubber gasket , but no use without the valve. The ones I bought purporting to be the old style, weren't. I think I will hang fire on that. A new stainless steel one costs £45-£60...and if I can find a second hand one....
The other corner has been done, I'm happy with that...drinks corner!
Plastic storage boxes sorted and all the odd boxes and lids are in the recycling bucket. Just the baking shelves to do now....how many tins and trays do I keep?!
Yes, Tom....thanks for the nudge! Now I have to keep rolling, room by room.
It will get easier when I've sold the bikes that I don't need.
In the morning...7.05 am
7.30 the birds started... mainly starlings
And at 8 o'clock the gulls turned up!!
We have a weather warning approaching, snow already on Cairngorm and the ski slopes and Shetland, the odd hailstorm in the Western Isles..here by lunchtime it was icy cold steady light rain..we might be on the edge of tomorrow's snow. We shall see...for now the temperature is dropping below freezing point.
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