Friday night. We head off to the theatre to see a Scottish comedian doing a monologue on 'My life with David Bowie'. https://byretheatre.com/shows/jack-docherty-in-david-bowie-and-me-parallel-lives/ This appeals to a wider theatre going demographic than is usual. Ten minutes before curtain up the place is packed and the queue for the bar zigzags through the foyer and back out towards the courtyard. There is an element of audience 'participation ' to the performance. This highlights the fact that most Scots, but not all, are extremely undemonstrative. Those that aren't can hold their own anywhere.
After the performance we head quickly to the towns one and indeed only cocktail bar for a night cap. The cocktail bar has recently had a makeover. At nine thirty the place is quiet apart from four lads who are determined to forget next weeks chemistry and physics papers. From the rapidity of their ordering it would appear that nothing - and certainly not a lack of revision - is going to stop them enjoying their Friday night. Most of the students won't start appearing until ten thirty or eleven but we have now reached an age where our idea of eleven pm excitement is a cup of Bovril. The cocktail bars makeover has given it a sort of primary coloured stridency. 'The Font' observes that there is ivy growing out of the air conditioning outlets above us. This is presumably intentional. We agree that blue and orange is a 'bold' choice of colour scheme.
An eternal question :https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/when-are-parents-responsible-for-their-kids-behavior
Can this really be new?:https://theconversation.com/nearsightedness-is-at-epidemic-levels-and-the-problem-begins-in-childhood-225255
Will this time be different ? :https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-rome-political-stability-gives-italy-meloni/