It's light at five, bright by six. This suits both Angus and Sophie who are early risers. The strong northerly wind continues to blow. It's brought a band of spume and kelp onto the beach. It's also brought out twenty or so hardy student para-surfers. Sophie is not sure about spume. She's certainly not sure about the para-surfers . The kelp she can live with.
The forecast says the blue skies will soon give way to cloud and drizzle.
This mornings conversation with the Manhattanites gets onto the subject of the civil war in Sudan and the movement of refugees. Water shortages around Lake Chad are discussed. Angus has got to an advanced stage in life without knowing anything about Lake Chad. Only goes to show you're never too old to learn something new :https://www.saltworkconsultants.com/lake-chad-chad/
Yesterday afternoon the UK's new national emergency system was tested. A message was sent to every mobile in the country. Who knew your phone could emit such a screeching noise ? Ahead of the alert the usual grouches were complaining on the radio about government intrusion in their lives. Now the grouches are complaining that not everyone got the message and that some are being prioritized over others. ' Does the government want me dead ?' asks a particularly incensed lady who didn't get a message . A few days ago breakfast radio had a man on saying the test would activate a secret component in the Covid vaccine and we'd all become Zombies.
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You've done well for good weather so far, so i hope it continues. Not that Sophie will care!
Years ago we had an architect friend who went to Chad, courtesy of a charity. When he told us where he was going, we all had to reach for the atlas to find out if it existed and where it was!
A few days ago, at 4:45 am to be exact, four sharp screeches awakened many Florida resident including us. A test of the state's emergency warning system gone awry. A plaintive apology not enough to keep our
Governor from firing the embarrassed vendor. An ironic sidebar to the Guv's anti,-woke campaign.
Sensible Sophie, very sensible. Just avoid the waves, and ignore the loud screeching sounds. A friend of mine in Wales didn't get the alert, I kidded him that the alert will arrive in Wales in a year or two, they are always a little behind in the news.
And it turns out that one of the few things I thought I knew about Lake Chad, namely that it is shrinking, in not correct!
Nobby likes the sound of a Philly cheesesteak.
Cheers, Gail.
My daughter was at Waterloo station and said it was quite bizarre when everyone's phones sounded the alert.
A while back we were awakened at two in the morning by our phones screaming at us to "take cover" - apparently not referring to the bedspread - due to an earthquake. The earthquake was mild and distant and didn't even rattle a dish, but the likelihood of a panic/heart attack dramatically increased.
Three years ago our nuclear power station, (26 KM from me), accidently sent out a screeching warning of an "incident at the plant". It went to all cell phone holders in Ontario. I've often wondered how much trouble the button pusher got in after that debacle.
I agree with Sophie, spume is very disturbing. However, the color of the sea is amazing, as is the Philly cheesesteak story,
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