The Pensioner

By Pensioner

The Garden Path

The regular minky day, and we birrled her off to Tumbles, which has reopened after its big refurbishment. Not that we saw much of a difference (apart from the workmen busily installing bench seats) – I do believe there are some new thrilling things over in the soft play business end of things.
Home via Asda to pick up bottled water… for come late afternoon, I was off up river with McC the elder. I say I was off, but actually I wasn’t as I was still on the mud at the back of 4:30pm. Big annoying John came and hovered over us – can I take your line, can I give you a push.. etc etc. Chrissakes man, you’re like a bad omen, a Jonah, clear off.
He’d managed to get himself another RNLI callout as his engine conked round the back of Inchkeith on Monday evening. It’s a sailing boat but sailing back to Granton seemed to be beyond him. He was still cross he hadn’t been towed home – they took him to Burntisland. Ha, that’ll learn him. Or not.
Anyway, into a pretty fresh westerly we motorsailed up to Limekilns and arrived at 7pm. Tied up, we cracked open a beer, got the fabulous cassoulet heated up, and later stepped out to the Bruce Arms. And then back for a nightcap or two… a very special nightcap.

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