'The Font' is on the super early flight from the local airport to London. The journey, in one of those little planes with propellers, takes an hour and fifty minutes. This morning it takes a little longer due to headwinds over the Lake District. It is what 'The Font', on landing, describes as a 'challenging' flight. The return flight leaves London at seven tonight. We shall dine 'fashionably' late.
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The local farmer drives down the road and stops for a wee blether. He has a new Mercedes flat bed truck. You never saw these things outside South Africa or Australia. Now they're everywhere. He's happy. He has a turkey farm on an old airstrip inland from here. There was a danger that he'd have to cull all his birds due to the avian flu outbreak. This would have meant large losses ahead of Christmas but he's discovered that the government will let him process the birds now and allow the carcasses to be deep frozen until Christmas. They will be labelled 'fresh' but say in super small print underneath 'deep frozen'. Good news for him, not such good news for the turkeys. He also volunteers that the weather is set to turn much colder after the long mild spell we've been enjoying.
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From 1988 but seems like the dark ages. How many of these are in a carton in a garage ? :https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1586089226084524033
Getting up at an unearthly hour isn't so strange :https://www.historydefined.net/sleeping-8-hours-per-night-is-a-surprisingly-new-concept/
7 comments:
Sophie's 'not for Crufts' windswept look is beyond magnificent!
The cloud formation in the first photos is quite something. Lonely PON in an endless landscape.
Agree with Nobby - that's some hairdo!
I got my first computer in 1988. Maybe it was 1989. I was working full-time and in grad school and a memory typewriter wasn't keeping up. My partner thought it was a crazy purchase. I actually took programming in college--BASIC and COBOL. You could tell the programming students by the three-inch-thick stacks of punch cards they carried. Once I stopped keeping up, I quickly fell so far behind any previous knowledge was obsolete.
Hari Om
Even in blustery, blattery Clydeside, it has been surprisingly mild temps, and I haven't even thought about heating yet. But my sister surprised me yesterday in our phone chat that snow is predicted before Christmas. hmmm.... we'll see... YAM xx
Pretty if cool and windy, and great morning for a walk with the dog.
I actually remember that encyclopedia commercial, probably because the monolithic computer in front of the kid was identical to the one I used at work. How impressed we all were with such technology. Miss Sophie is beautifully windswept in a fashionable sort of way.
The article on sleep was very interesting as that is now my natural sleep pattern after retiring. Four hours asleep , two hours reading, four hours sleeping. Sophies windblown look is lovely.
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