Wednesday was a typically Scottish October day - cold and unrelentingly wet. Thursday dawns bright and sunny but blustery. We have the beach to ourselves. On the quayside we meet the lobster fisherman. He's being kept busy with orders from all the 5 star hotel restaurants. Eating lightly and healthily is not something you associate with major golf tournaments. Cuisine tends to the 70's era steak and fries variety. Surf and Turf if you're more adventurous and have even deeper pockets. The fisherman points to a Dutch bitumen carrier that's spent the last 3 nights anchored in the estuary due to storms in the North Sea. Angus quietly wonders why a Dutch ship should be bringing bitumen to Scotland or possibly taking it in the other direction.
How interesting. This long established shop in London :https://www.cornelissen.com/ still makes medieval ink :https://www.cornelissen.com/drawing-and-calligraphy/inks/cornelissen-historical-inks-charter-ink-30ml.html
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I regularly used to visit that art shop while doing my OE in the last 80s and 90s. Good to know it is still there as I kept a photo of jars of pigments they made on my study wall until 2020. It's a small world!
That was late 80s.
I could spend a very long time in that art shop! It ranks up there with French cheese shops and their Patisseries.
Hari OM
That shop itself is a work of art... as is life; I, too, can look back over fifty years since teenage and wonder at how much has flowed through them... YAM xx
Can it be true that so many years have passed!? I’ve thoroughly enjoyed experiencing many of them through the blog.
You are three years older than I am. A lot has happened in the past 50 years. Things we couldn't even dream about within our lifetime.
I figured out a while ago that you are about the same age as I am, and I honestly believe that reading about all of your adventures, particularly last year's decision to sell the house in France followed by the decision to buy the new house and the implementation of both decisions over a very short period of time, helped me believe we could actually carry off our own move from Tokyo to France. Absolute madness in retrospect, but here we all are and many thanks to you! Your description of a typically Scottish October day coincides perfectly with my husband's experience in Glasgow over the past few days. He was fooled at first, as his first few days were clear and sunny, but then he was fortunately able to experience the real Scotland. My son finds it all wonderful. Both my husband and my son think the restaurants are generally far better in Glasgow than on the Cote d'Azur. At least more authentic as to the non-French restaurants, I think. The Turkish restaurants in Glasgow are actually Turkish, whereas here they all serve tacos for some reason!
Was there a " meet'-cute" those 50 years ago...and red robes?
Maybe the commercial larger one will last longer...like forever.
P.S. Since we are no longer rating croissants, I must rate that first photo a 10/10. Beautiful.
Well I remember my first day as a student at St Andrews and yes it was a long time ago...1966... but also not so long really. I have recently moved house for the umpteenth, and hopefully last, time and one of the items coming with me was my red university gown, again packed away. But what to do with it? None of my four offspring needed it but it's something I can't get rid of. What did you do with yours Angus? Any suggestions?
Megan - I think many gowns are gifted to the Students Union for those who can't afford a new one.
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