A fair slug of the Navy.

 

Not much warmth to be found this morning with a bracing wind blowing in from the North Sea . The weak sun struggling to get the air temperature into double digits. We pass three early rising youngsters on the cliff top walk. They are having one of those intense 'putting the world to rights' type conversations that 17 year olds thrive on and are too busy talking to notice us.  I'm guessing the youngsters are part of the new intake of students that will arrive in October and are out scoping the place ahead of time. Four Royal Navy ships are at anchor in the bay. That's got to be a fair slug of the Navy.  Presumably the Russians are out and about being mischievous in the North Sea. A RAF fighter doing touch and goes at the local  airbase reinforces this suspicion.

The electricians want to start work at seven thirty. This means we're on the beach at six fifteen for a forty five minute walk before heading off in the car to open up for them. Rain is forecast for the rest of the week so much of yesterday was spent putting up tarpaulins to cover the woodwork and exposed insulating foam. It's to be hoped more progress is made today.

Surprise of the day. The shoreline is covered in thousands of small jelly fish.

As we walk along the sand it becomes clear that its not thousands but tens of thousands of these wee things that have been washed up. Whatever could have caused this to happen on such a scale? We're used to seeing dead jellyfish but usually in the low dozens .

'The Font' is valiantly trying to keep the garden in the wee house under control. The roses and honeysuckle are more than thriving in the warmth of the Scottish summer. The house is full of freshly cut flowers and smells like a florists. Whoever knew honeysuckle was such a robust and vigorous plant ?

Last night a ceilidh in the examination hall. Long dresses and kilts much in evidence.  A group of lawyers on an American Bar Association 'refresher' course pass the open door and wonder if they should go in. As we return after our evening tour of the town we see that they're throwing themselves with abandon into the country dancing.

A lady visitor in the restaurant we dined in last night had prepared herself for a trip to Scotland by watching this video. " It was so helpful ".  :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1MFKiOBb8. 

If I've understood this correctly the US CO2 emissions are back to the levels they were in 1945  https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&country=~USA