Higgeldy-piggeldy.
It's grey and wet and thanks to a cold snap overnight it's alarmingly slippery underfoot. I make it from the front door to the end of the track that leads to the beach. It's then time to turn back towards home to put on an additional layer of clothing. Even the Jack Russells are staying indoors out of the wind.
I won't say town is quiet but this mornings excitement is provided by a large seagull walking up and down the road outside the metaphysics department. The gull stares malevolently at other gulls and the occasional passer by.
On a side street I stop to look at an unusual house. It's a semi - detached to which two black doors under a single arch provide entry. A third, separate, house is squeezed in to the remaining lot space on the right. The semi-detached has two large 45 degree angled windows at one end and triangular windows on the road side. I'm not sure I've ever seen a house with triangular windows before. They must have been designed to let in the maximum amount of light. If so the rest of the house must be very dark. Cleaning triangular windows must be difficult. The higgeldy-piggeldy roof line hints that this may have been the Victorian era architects first, and quite possibly last, commission.
The cinema now showing 'One Life'. The two other offerings don't appeal.
The hardware store has in its window the largest corkscrew I've ever seen. A collection of wine glasses of various shapes and colours takes up the rest of the space and serve as a reminder that this is a student town. What a nineteen year old considers good taste can often surprise those of more advanced years.
A rather fancy badger fur sporran in a kilt shop window. The small Italian coffee shop has opened up again after getting a fresh coat of paint. 'The Font' is due back this afternoon. The train is fully booked all the way to the local station. This indicates that the peak student migration season has arrived.
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These days, when I see a higgeldy-piggeldy roof line, I just think about maintenance costs...
That's a fine bushy sporran!
19 year old's don't want good taste - they just want fun. As for the sporran, it's a bit unnerving and looks like it was designed for Cruella DeVille
Very interesting articles. The first one made me smile - a lot.
My daughter would surely find those skull shot glasses to be "fire." The Substack article was timely. My husband, who has been writing about the impact of industrial revolutions on market quality, met the emperor yesterday at a New Year's event in Tokyo and was surprised to be asked how long the Industrial Revolution had continued. The emperor thought maybe about ten years, but now we have the answer - 1 minute and 17 seconds in real time. I love car movies and was interested in Ferrari, but it sounds rather sad from the reviews.
We saw the movie Ford vs Ferrari and enjoyed it - have heard although the Ferrari movie can be uneven it is worth seeing. And we are two 80 plus year olds.
It might be fun to live in a quirky house, with a one of a kind design. Might be? Stay warm.
Lisa in F - Meeting the emperor ! Now that's quite something. Also, not an easy journey from the south of France. Guessing Nice to Tokyo must be 16 hours.
Angus - It is a long way to Tokyo, flying through Paris, London or Amsterdam. He went last month as well, that time to Kyoto - if you are able to go next month, be mindful the Kansai airport is not very convenient. Many people prefer to fly into Tokyo and then take the bullet train to Kyoto. The fact that my husband quite enjoyed meeting the emperor is proof that he is also turning into his father!
I enjoyed both articles especially the second one.
The work behind the making of the Ferrari movie was amazing. Those are real (replica) cars, and no green screens or CGI. WAPO did a good piece on how it was done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2023/12/29/ferrari-michael-mann-racing-scenes/
Reading about the CIA writers group made me think about Ian Fleming and John LeCarre, wondering if MI6 ever initiated such a thing after these two delicious writers made their names in spy novels and eventually films. Or if the Washington Post's David Ignatius whose "fiction" reflects the truth better than his actual reporting might have provoked something similar. Parking be darned! Loved both articles. Thank you.
Do 19 yr olds buy corked wine? They probably start with a fresh made barrel every school year and finish 'just in time'.
You could store it outside most of the time couldn't you?
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