Hot and heavy. But not so hot and heavy that Sophie wants to stop playing with her starfish. Bob dozes.
'The font' starts the third year Quantum Mechanics course. This is taught by young and enthusiastic Californian professors in t-shirts and fleeces. An altogether more 'hip' crowd than the polyester suited astrobiologists . The Quantum Mechanicists speak very quickly. Every so often, when describing a complicated neutron-electron interaction, they pause and ask, '' Everyone cool with that ? " . The wonder of live streaming.
The lane through the village busy with pilgrims. A Taiwanese couple stop to tell us it's the 800th anniversary of St.Francis walking this route to Compostela. Once, in Assisi, three Polish friars spotted Wilf and Digby outside the basilica . 'Nizinny ?'- one asked . It ended up with two of the friars walking the PON brothers through the cloisters while a third showed us the saints undershirt and sandals in the monastery. A kind gesture which was slightly wasted on two northern iconoclasts. Here in France our path and that of the Saint once again cross . Polish Lowland coincidences.
And here as an antidote to the heat, a sound of Scotland
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Professors are getting younger....
XXXOOO Bella Roxy & dui
I's cool wiff dat... of course, I's coolest wiff da A/C turned down waaayyy lowwww.....
From St Francis of Assisi via PONs to quantum mechanics.
Quite a distance covered this morning.
Cheers,
Gail.
I are cool wif da A/C on, BOL!
Love the song. Are you a Hebridean Angus?
I'm an islander but not a Hebridean one.
Re your last post. Glad to see someone saying 'No'.
A sensible Westie !
Perfect Westie weather !
Esoterica morning.
So are policemen.
The Princess and her starfish. Wasn't that a Disney movie? She looks beautiful in that photo. And Bob looks his gorgeous sweet self in his photos.
Quantum Mechanics. I have read some 'for dummies' style books on the subject and they are chewy enough. Mme Font is frighteningly impressive and very cool!!
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I was relieved she wasn't studying it in French! But yes one amazing lady :)
I had to look up "Nizinny" which led me to this:
Almost driven to extinction in World War II, the PON was restored mainly through the work of Dr. Danuta Hryniewicz and her dog, Smok ("Dragon"), the ancestor of all PONs in the world today, who sired the first ten litters of PONs in the 1950s.
He must have been Bob and Sophie's great^20 grandfather (or something like that!)
We were told that there were only seven of them left in the whole of Poland in 1945. One very dedicated lady set about saving them from extinction. In PON circles ' Smok ' is a very famous dog- the great, great...... grandmother of the breed. It was in a snow storm in Warsaw in the mid-1970's that we first saw them and decided these were the dogs for us. I don't think they made it to the UK until the late 1980's and the US some time after after that . In Poland they are decidedly not designer dogs but were clearly recognized by the Polish friars in Italy as a touch of home..
Ah, don't you miss it.
Scotland, I mean.
I tried to learn Scottish Gaelic. I really did.
"Everyone cool with that?" would have sounded much nicer back in my day when the professors could only muster up a "Is that understood?"
Hurray for the Font, she is one cool lady with many unpredictable interests....and best of luck to her in her course.
I loved the scenery in the video....so soothing and pretty. Even though I did not understand the words they were still very calming and I watched it twice.
Thanks for the history lesson on Bob and Sophie's heritage, I enjoyed learning about the breed.
It's so sad, Angus. The country is totally divided, and it's pretty much along class/wealth lines. Someone "important" said to me the other days it's those in work against those not. Tragic, deeply felt awfulness. I predict 60-40 No, so we could be doing it all again in my lifetime. Heaven forfend!
Julie Fowlis would cringe at my interpretation of her words, let alone the singing.
Does he have a beard?
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