Sophie does not enjoy 40 degree + days. After our 5:30 am walk round the garden ( already a steamy 25 ) she slumps on the cool tiles on the kitchen floor. One great thing about The Rickety Old Farmhouse is that the walls are so thick the heat takes time to work its way indoors.
Comfort breaks and meal times excepted much of today will be spent in front of a fan . There may be a late evening outing to the stream but last night Angus saw what he thought might have been a Genet - a small wild cat. Although it walked by within two metres of Sophie she was thankfully completely unaware of its presence. Angus makes a mental note to ask The Old Mayor whether Genets can bite.
There will also be a windows down , ears flying trip to the bakers for a curly croissant end.
It's too hot to go for a walk through the sunflower fields. Nonetheless, a bunch appear on the breakfast table.
Getting away from the heat : https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/best-modern-holiday-homes-in-scotland/
Seems reasonable to me : https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/a-new-theory-of-dreaming
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Sophie certainly doesn't look as though she's anxious to be going anywhere (except maybe in search of croissants). The sunflowers in that cornflower blue container look spectacular. As to fitted sheets, I hate them and refuse to learn how to fold them, so in our house people either get a crumpled pile of cotton from me, or they ask my husband, who does it the same way she does - it's simply a matter of personal preference in my view.
I forgot to say, I would very much like to encounter a genet someday. I had no idea they existed, and, from the online images, they seem to be quite beautiful.
Hari OM
To spot a genet seems to me to be something of profound luck and beauty. Though the biting bit may be worth taking into consideration! I need to buy me some sunflowers... as ever, your links delight and inform! YAM xx
40 degrees is too hot for us too. A fan sounds like a great idea - or a dip in the pool would be nice.
The sunflowers look great.
Being in the throes of planning an upgrade of my Torridon cottage, it strikes me the houses featured in the link set a high bar for modern Scottish retreats! Although I do wonder about the 'outdoor shower' at the Glen Dye one, especially given that a former colleague's dog once got bitten by an adder in Glen Dye - and then there's the midges...
Please tell us it was a genet that you saw!
Cheers,
Gail (successfully avoiding the heat, as always, in Aberdeen).
Those sunflowers are perfect!
Very interesting article about the Scottish holiday homes, but I wonder if the second one started life as a shipping container!
Another very hot day forecast here too, so after our early morning walk we're back home and preparing to escape the heat. No trip out to find a croissant with curly ends to share.
The Old and The New mayors are in agreement that it was indeed a Genet. The area down bu the little stream and waterfall is dark and secluded and the banks are covered in long dead trees. The ideal solitary spot for Genets. Sophie and Angus and the odd farmer and hiker are likely to be the only human visitors to disturb this shy resident.
Anything above 30 is uncomfortable for a PON. A fan and ice cubes are de rigeur.
They apparently go after chickens. Apart from that their interface with human kind is limited.
We've been here more than a decade and this was the first glimpse either of us have had of one of these elusive creatures.
The similarity to a shipping container is spot on ! Must have good heating to be habitable.
Your photos of sunflowers is what began my love of them - I so wanted to see the ones in Maryland (that of course pale to yours) this year, but didn't go because of the heat that day. It has been brutal every where this year, and we still have August.
My Mom taught me the fitted sheet fold as a girl. I taught my daughter as a girl.
Kimberley taught her whole dorm when she went to college! No middle fingers were ever mentioned, BTW.
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