Showing posts with label Mowgli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mowgli. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 May 2016

Busy Week, roll on the weekend and hail the Fatside!!!

Been some week at the coal face...
Hard to believe it`s the end of May and under a month until the longest day with these cold temperatures of May. Spring has been a long one this year!...

Monday; started real nice with dry weather-great for mowing!,
Tuesday was overcast but dry and had a cold but fun evening cycle with Christian..
Wednesday it got colder again as that biting cold North to North easterly onshore wind returned and it was baltic up on the hill, cut you to the bone!
Thursday it got even colder wind chill with the drizzle and i was in the tractor mowing all day only getting out to refit a thrown drive belt a few times...
Salvation came on Thursday evening toasty in front of the stove and a big glass of wine...
Friday the drizzle gave way to Sea Harr!, it was pea soup up on the hill!, day in the shed doing maintenance...
Some phone pics from the week...

A sign!!!




Some new friends over the fence...


They don`t say much!...


Tuesday heavy fore casted rain moved north over the Forth all day....


Every morning starts with some maintenance on something or other... moneys worth out this filter!...


Wednesday big sky day!...



Stripes...


Easterly tailwind cycle home everyday was nice, loving the Dawes Ultra Galaxy for commuting...


Thursday horrid cold easterly rain!....



Home sweet home...


Friday and freezing two hours mowing Driving Range  in thick Sea Harr then washed grease and Back lap fairway mower...


Most younger generation Greenkeepers will have no idea what this job is unless they work on a budget run course with old kit and no mechanic and grinder, but it helps keep it\s cut....


Jungle Warfare;  Here's what i am always on about, this will have to wait until next week to wash and grease, its the weekend!, time to ride bikes!!!



Saturday, 28 March 2015

Sandstorm Saturday coasting...



After heavy rain Saturday`s skies brightened up a bit around 10am when we went out cycling from North Berwick,


The wind however was a bit wild!, but we managed to stay a bit sheltered inland via Yellowcraig.
Big skies overhead with impressive storm clouds whizzed past in the gale force South westerly wind...




Up to Gullane and an ice cream, Nice old 110 Series 3, similar to the Station Waggon my dad had that we grew up in...


Mowgli sat and drooled hope full as always of something being dropped-no chance!...


This `Loupin on Stane` for mounting horses is a folly, Francis says it is also a bit to tall, nice feature anyway...


Dunno if the BBC fear mongering weather forecast had scared people away but Gullane car park was near deserted...



The weather was not bad at all as the strong wind was not gusting, just howling all the time!...







Loads of blown sand has covered all the rocks usually ridden over here...




Sands were blowing and drifting...





The coast was near devoid of people. We saw no one between Freshwaterhaven to Broadsands...



Love it when the coast is like this, esp when the wind is behind!...






Great light again today...



And soon enough back into town...


And a local couple out walking chatted for a while and he could not resist a shot of my Pugsley, big grins :)...


More soon...