All weather trousers.

A bark at the front door tells us that 'puppy' is here for her start of day oatcake. This is now a fixed part of her routine. As far as she's concerned all the villagers are - to a greater or lesser extent -  part of her family. She has a ' What's yours is mine' philosophy. The farmers wife has given up on making the garden escape proof. The Jack Russells are acrobatic escapologists.

Preparations for the village Burns Night well underway. The farmer who's converted his barn into an 'upmarket wedding venue ' tells me there will be live music. He wonders if Angus has any 'spare wine' in his cellar. Angus promises to see. Our conversation then turns to the wet weather, sodden fields and the shortage of grazing for the coming lambing season.

The rising sun shows that five ships are still at anchor in the bay. The four large windfarm service vessels - each as large as a cross Channel ferry -  set back out to sea late yesterday afternoon. ' You can't bring your B game to the North Sea' observes the American professor with the Australian wife and the brown and white spaniel. Or, that's what I think he's said. The American professor is wearing postbox red extreme weather gear which gives him the bulked up look of a colourful astronaut on a space walk. His entire face, bar his eyes , is covered by a voluminous, noise absorbing hood. Handy for the Yukon but a tad over the top for Fife.  He teaches Applied Physics which presumably gives him some insight into local sea conditions. 

Three tractors out ploughing the fields by the sea. Hundreds of gulls happily  grubbing for worms in the newly formed furrows behind them. After the storms twenty or so lobster creels have been piled up at the foot of the track waiting for the fisherman to come out and collect them.

Outside the cafe on the beach three golf carts and a golf bag. The local version of a traffic jam. Inside a group of English golfers . Each of them is having not one but two bacon rolls. They arrived late last night after long flight delays and a heart stopping go around at a very windy Edinburgh airport. 

Before they go the golfers order four cinnamon rolls. ' Just the thing to keep you warm in this wind ' says one of them to no one in particular. Angus notes that all the golfers are wearing 'practical and stylish' Under Armor All Weather Golf Trousers.

Building your own Hebridean house :https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/my-modern-house-eilidh-izat-jack-arundell-alasdair-izat-outer-hebrides

Not sure I'd want nuclear powered ships sheltering in the bay :https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powered-cargo-ship