I didn't think I'd enjoy this but it's easy(ish) to read, has access to previously closed archives and is in its own way thrilling. Certainly a candidate for one of the best books of the year. Spoiler alert - there are few heroes in this tale.
We'd hoped that the three large and exceedingly noisy seagull chicks nesting on the neighbours kitchen roof might have taken wing. This morning they're still there. One of the parents is always on guard. The mother is currently sitting on a chimney pot and keeping a watchful eye on the three little squawkers while father heads off to scout the restaurant dustbins for last nights left overs. The seagull chicks and their sleeping patterns ( or lack of them ) have become a staple of our breakfast time conversations. 'The Font' wonders if seagull chicks in the wild grow this quickly or whether their latest growth spurt is down to a constant diet of discarded Domino Pizza crusts.
Window box season. Orange begonias make an appearance outside a guest house. I'd like to say the jury is divided over the aesthetic benefits of orange begonias but we're agreed that the most that can be said in their favour is that they're cheery.
We've got used to the town being busy with weddings at weekends. We weren't expecting to find the parking bays suspended and hear the pipers kicking off early on a Monday morning.
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Perhaps sleeping tablets are the answer, either for yourselves or the seagull chicks!
Those window boxes are a cheerful addition to rather gloomy sandstone and tarmac pavement. It does seem rather a long way to travel to get married, given that many marriages these days don't seem to last.
Hari OM
This will just be me... but that shadow before the piper looks very much like a Klingon War Bird...
Did any one else have trouble opening that last link (or is that also just me on a travelling hotspot?) YAM xx
Noisy seagulls are a fact of life in Aberdeen. When I worked in an office by the harbour, colleagues in London used to complain about the background noise when we were on the phone.
Skirl. What a perfect word to describe that unique sound. Had to look it up, but no surprise at the definition.
Looks like a great place for a wedding. I wonder if a cat would encourage fledging.
It didn’t open for me either.
Thank you Angus,brilliant book for my husband's birthday next week, just when I had run out of ideas and when he had finished,for the second time, his thick copy of "Collateral Damage" about Dorothy Kilgallen. Also being tortured here by seagulls and chicks. Moved into this flat three weeks ago to find a little colony of them on the "green" roof opposite. They weren't there when we viewed the flat a while back. Sympathy.Gorgeous St Andrews photographs as ever.
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