A glorious dawn followed in quick succession by torrential rain which soon morphs into the mother of all thunder storms. Within an hour of going out we've experienced summer and autumn with a brief detour into winter.
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Angus and Sophie manage to get a good fifty minute walk done before the heavens open. This morning we don't see another living soul but a herd of a dozen deer watch us from the brow of the hill. In France they would have run away as soon as they saw us. Here they seem unconcerned. Could it be the lack of organized hunting makes them less afraid ?
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A baby flamingo learning to stand on one leg :https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1566781947312885761
11,000 students have arrived in a town half that size. They all look so young ... and take up all the parking spots :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxMU1MwPX_0
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There is plenty of organised culling of deer in the Highlands of Scotland but not perhaps on the east coast. I love the pier walk video and all those red gowns flapping in the sea breeze.
I think the hunting difference is indeed that while there are organised culls in some areas, there isn't the weekly, all-season, large group communal hunting that happens in France.
When did the pier walk become a spectator sport? Not when our daughter was at St A only a few years ago. It seems to have become a "thing" among parents dropping off their offspring - parents then stay on to record charming vignettes of student life. I suspect the parking problem is caused by the parents more than the students.
Linda - You may be right. Parents this year seem to be lingering . In M&S this am some poor mother was weeping copiously at the self service checkouts as she was buying provisions for her daughter. The daughter was sensibly using this display of maternal emotion to ensure she had enough food to last through the apocalypse.
Have you found a storm drain where you can sit and discuss the problems of the world with Sophie?
That really is a spectacular sunrise, and a very colourful poppy!
I too, wondered about the storm drain discussions, but perhaps you can find a
comfortable rock overlooking the sea.
Hari OM
Ah yes, the all-seasons-in-one-day syndrome. Once infected, never immune! YAM xx
I suspect you are in for a bit more wintery of a winter.
A sunrise to live for...wowee!
What a glorious way for you and Sophie to begin your day!
What memories those gowns bring back to me! The system for wearing was- 1st years fully on the shoulders; 2nd years one shoulder off; 3rd years both shoulders off; 4th years hanging down the back from the elbows. Tradition but boy did we need them in the sharp weather. I have still got mine in the attic but 40 years later it will be brought out to assist in the "keeping warm this winter challenge" Oh to have Sophie's coat, groomed or not.
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