A wonderful full moon last night. The i-Phone camera can't do justice to it. For a brief moment, as it rises, it illuminates all the mega-structures out at sea. An unexpected moment of industrial beauty. The wind farm is now progressing by leaps and bounds. A couple of months ago there were two turbines on the horizon. Now there are fifteen. Eventually there will be more than hundred . A fleet of huge barges ferry them out to deep water where they are assembled in a slow but constant construction ritual.
A group of village ladies stop to chat. They are up and about early to take their dogs for a walk. We are told that Roe Deer are prone to giving birth to twins. This explains why we see so many groups of three. Another Bronze Age tomb has been found on the hill in the potato field. The farmer wants to plough it but will now have to wait until the police come to examine the bones. Village conversations have their own peculiar dynamic.
Cloudy but mild this morning. We wander through the village and across the car park of the 5 star hotel to get to the closest sandy beach. It's quiet but every so often we pass a group of students returning from their Saturday night festivities. They are dressed with crumpled formality. Many of the girls are in long dresses and the boys have dinner jackets slung over their shoulders. It takes an hour to absorb an 8g unit of alcohol ( a 13.5% alcohol wine contains 10 units ) so I think some of them will be recuperating for the remainder of the day. Anyone over the age of 40 is completely invisible to the youngsters so we pass by in silence.
One of the big surprises is the quality of the local food. Some of the big land owners have got together and combined the management of their farms. This lower costs and enables them to experiment with products that can be grown in small but commercial quantities.
..... just out of the ground Brussel Sprouts are put in the shopping trolley.Further exploration of the kitchen catalogue unearths this :https://www.karawater.com/ A rather expensive way of filling a water bottle ?
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Holy Smoly! Even personally blessed by His Holiness wouldn't tempt me!! A water machine for people with "more money than sense" as my mother would say. You could provide bores for many impoverished communities for that ridiculous amount.
I did like the Brussel Sprouts though. How good to be able to buy fresh locally grown produce.
Hari OM
You would need to be living in high humidity not to end up so parched even that supposed 10l wouldn't be enough. It is, after all, just a glorified dehumidifier...
Perhaps Angus and The Font might be considering planting an edible garden once they find a reliable bloke. Chard/Silverbeet is one of the easiest things to grow, even sprouts, if you have the space for them. For the cost of a packet of seeds, you'd have the year's supply. YAM xx
I love the local produce. Echoing Yam above, I note that chard even grows well even in the neglected community plot on the wet and infertile shores of Loch Torridon, so clearly is a survivor!
By my calculations, the students should be ready for 9 am lectures tomorrow!
Wonderful post for a Sunday morning. I have never eaten chard and have no idea what it tastes like, but it certainly is gorgeous. And the brussel sprouts! And more Scotties. I thought I favored the one in the striped bathing outfit, but then I saw the Hokusai waves on the second. The water dispenser seems very silly.
The Scottie in the stripes is just lovely, a reminder of simpler times and knitted swimming costumes, well before my time.
There seems no end to the inventive designs on the Scotties. Each one is worthy of a prize.
At first glance I though the chard was rhubarb. We have chard here but rhubarb, when you can find it, is a luxury usually imported from France and sold by the stick.
Our water is heavily chlorinated, so I have a filter system under the sink, which dispenses odourless water every time I turn the tap on. I have no idea if it is restricted to a limited number of litres a day. When I flush the system each month, which involves leaving the tap running until it empties the filter tank, it delivers 5 litres.
A delightful post; the produce is so beautifully displayed. How fortunate you are to have this so close at hand.
The Sprouts look wonderful, fresh and local can be amazing.
I love this morning's Scotties. Will prizes be awarded at the end? That beautiful chard would go right into my lentil soup! Beautiful produce. Water filtration systems seem absurd if one has good tap water. The water here in Los Angeles is awful. I recently purchased a reverse osmosis filter for my kitchen at a cost significantly lower than the atmospheric water system.
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