Goss

Back to sleep after I first woke up and so a very lazy start to the day. We had breakfast together and chatted about the boat she’d been sailing on and the people on the tour then DF headed off to meet her cousins and see Grayson Perry exhibition and I took LE over to LL&DR’s house. We sat in the sun in their garden admiring the new shed they’d recently built and its very organised interior then went in for lunch, talking non stop about everything they’re all experiencing at work, mixed in with bits about holiday, decorating and interior design, festival and cycling etc.
We were about to go for a walk when the rain started so we had some tea and carried on talking then took the opportunity when it stopped to drive down to Cove for a wander. Another of these sad memorials showing the grieving families looking out to sea in the hurricane of October 1881 when 189 men from along this coast dies, 11 from the tiny hamlet of Cove. Many more died in Eyemouth (where some boats went aground very close to the harbour and beach so in sight of their families) and the memorial there is much bigger. So poignant to have these tiny bronze bereaved families staring out to sea along the memorial walls.
We loved the little secret harbour and beach, reached through a tunnel that they used to pull the fish up through. Just two or three cottages/storehouses left now but clearly still a fishing harbour for some, and some amazing geology (close as this is to Siccar Point where Hutton discovered the first rock unconformity in 1781 that helped build his theory of geological time).
We avoided the rain throughout our wander, still talking non stop about current situation and plans, then back to L&D’s before I drove LE back to Edinburgh where she was seeing her last comedy show.
DF and I chatted, ate some leftovers for supper and watched a nonsense coming of age film that was quite amusing before not too late a night. Relaxing day