There's a scattering of high cloud but when it burns off it's soon going to be another 'South of France' day. The bracken that lines the dunes now starting to turn brown as late summer melds into autumn. The Old Course busy with golf tourists walking the hallowed turf . I'm guessing that a high percentage of these folks are fathers escorting their offspring back for the start of the new semester. They just happen to have brought their clubs with them in case a slot suddenly opens up.
Sunday reading :
Murals at Iowa State and some interesting ( and contrasting ) poems :https://www.lib.iastate.edu/visit-and-study/art-in-library/murals
Tips for the autumn garden :https://carmeninthegarden.substack.com/p/starting-your-fall-garden-12-beginner
Close encounters :https://musictales.club/article/five-tones-spielbergs-alien-language
13 comments:
Hari Om
Having a blog from Angus to read each morning is a darn good start to the day! YAM xx
"Tip Top" is something heard often here in NZ. Since the 1930's it's been a major brand of ice-cream with one of their best selling flavours being "hokey pokey".
My American friend Marse - lived all over the USA but family home Missouri - uses 'darn' quite a lot. 'Tip top', never. But I can hear a former colleague, from an Anglophile Kenyan Asian background, saying it!
Perhaps the golfing gentlemen had been brushing up their English idioms courtesy of Bertie Wooster? Although darn would probably have been a tad risqué in those days!
Love the golfing Scottie. It would be nice to think it could find a home at Pebble Beach - a course we admired from the road, many years ago on a trip to California. The few golfers we met there all asked my husband (his surname is unashamedly Scottish) if he'd played at St. Andrews! I can't be sure, but I think he said he'd played on the links - which are the public course?
I like the golfing Scottie - he's very smart.
I still hear tip top and darn, but mostly coming from my generation, certainly not from the younger folks. I always enjoy your links Angus. Learning something new every day is a good way to start the day for me. And 'Close Encounters' is a movie I've not seen in a dogs age. Must hunt it down and give it a watch.
I enjoyed the pictures today and agree the golfing scottie is tip top.
The links were especially interesting.
A scottie would look great in your garden.
Just judging by the length of the champagne list 15 I believe. The wine list is a tome. I needn't go to the food menu even. To say it is lush would only be stating the obvious.
Are they taking bids on the Scottie's?
I have very poor depth perception, so golf is way outside my range of experience, but I used to watch it on TV with my grandfather, and I think I can understand the attraction - although still not the clothing. I agree that the golfing Scottie is very smart - actually, all of the Scotties seem pretty creative, as compared to the various cow series we have seen over the years. Here, we are enjoying a South of France day in the South of France, but my son is experiencing his first rainy day in Glasgow. He has really taken to the city in any event and was off to his account-opening appointment with HSBC - on a Sunday!
Nobu, I was referencing in my comment.
Nobu is indeed a tip top, darn good restaurant. That's also a darn good Scottie - love his golf bag!
I especially enjoyed the Iowa murals article. When extremely provoked my husband might say "darn it!" and feel he has used coarse language. Such innocence makes me smile.
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