Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Murk.

 

We go for dinner to the modern restaurant with the glorious views across the beach. The golfers who flew into the local airbase on their private 737 are also there. They're clustered around the bar in a defensive huddle. A gentleman named Charlie is loudly and enthusiastically reliving the eagle he got on the 14th. This , it would seem, is something he will be bragging about for the rest of his life. Charlie and his colleagues are still at the bar as we finish dinner and leave. Their bar tab is likely to be bigger than the GDP of some small African countries. They seem to be trying every 'Scotch' on the shelves. There will be a few sore heads later on.


A sea mist this morning. The weather forecaster informs us that the Scottish east coast will see ' a haar followed by murk'.   Angus wonders how many English folk will know what a 'haar' is. The 'murk' part they will probably get.

We stop off for a coffee at the little Italian cafe. The chimney stacks on the old buildings on the other side of the road are a small miracle of architectural engineering. The place must have  had a foul reek to it in the days when every one of them was belching out smoke and coal dust.


The university staff are now joining the students and heading off for the summer. The older parts of  town , away from the golf courses, have a distinctly empty feel to them. Parking is once again easy. If you want to shoot a zombie movie with eerily deserted streets then St.Andrews in mid-May is the place to do it.


Another sign of avian flu on the beach.


Todays 'must view' winner : Porcupine eating an apple :https://twitter.com/shouldhaveanima/status/1790261987534066059

Sweetgreen a company that makes $20 salads - presumably sold in supermarkets :https://sherwood.news/business/the-economics-of-a-usd15-sweetgreen-salad/


8 comments:

WFT Nobby said...

Duthie Park blanketed in thick haar this morning. Looking forward to just murk. A fellow dog walker tells us it's sunny in Banchory.

Angus said...

WFT - It always seems to be sunny inland

jabblog said...

The porcupine looks almost cuddly.

Lisa in France said...

"A haar followed by murk" is going to stay with me, as is the porcupine.

Diaday said...

I recently had one of those $20 Sweetgreen salads. Three college students started the company because they were looking for a fast but healthy way to eat. The salads are big and the ingredients are very fresh. Haar and murk expanded my vocabulary this morning.

Stephanie said...

The porcupine is wonderful and St. Andrews a place of immense beauty and charm.

Coppa's girl said...

The porcupine is so sweet and looks very young, like a baby. I don't think I've ever seen one so close up before.
Sad to see that avian flu is still claiming victims.

Travel said...

Sweetgreen salads are made to order, and mostly taken away to lunch at your desk. Their locations are costly high density city locations and a few shopping malls - very high cost locations. I am not surprised that the overhead results in a loss. I was taught to value a company based on profit, not on growing losses. Sooner or later they have make money, and I don't know if they cut their overhead, if the sales will hold up. There are often lines out the door at lunch time in their Washington DC locations.