Friends heading off to San Francisco. Heathrow we are told is working well after yesterdays IT outage. Every quarter of an hour one or other of us gets a text saying the airport is crowded. Yesterday was supposed to be the busiest day of the year with families celebrating the start of the school holidays by flying off to sunnier climes. With so many cancellations it looks like today is going to be a travel nightmare on steroids.
The farmers wife has given up on cleaning the farmhouse windows. There's a swallows nest in the corner of every one. Their presence is unmistakable.
The outdoor coffee 'venue' that has opened up on the site of the old Greyfriars monastery is doing a roaring trade. They have a plastic sparrow hawk to scare the gulls away from their clients bacon rolls. This seems to work although we see a particularly ferocious gull settling on the far wall in readiness for a smash and grab raid on an unsuspecting tourist.
The bakers doing a brisk trade in what the French would call 'religeuse' but are here referred to , more prosaically, as coffee buns.
Frog cakes continue to be best sellers.
A student bike upended on the pavement. Looking at the rust that's eaten its way through the frame I'm assuming its been left out for the dustmen.
This was probably one of the best books I've read in years. Although we spent much time in Germany in the late 70's I'd never heard of women artists like Gunta Stolzl who ran the Bauhaus weaving mill ( https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/frauhaus-gunta-stolzl-walter-gropius-and-the-women-of-the-bauhaus ) or Marianne Brandt ( who posthumously got the highest price ever for a small Bauhaus object - a 1927 metal teapot - that went for $361,000 at Sothebys ). The last chapters brilliantly - and poignantly - describe how a hyper polarized society blundered with eyes wide open on its fateful path .
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In Japan, it is considered to be very good luck if a swallow chooses to nest at your home, even if it is a bit messy. I am enjoying our local swallows, who do a mass evening swoop around the village around the time we walk Charlie. I can't figure out where they are nesting, however. I am not sure what our local patisserie would make of those coffee buns.
The plastic sparrowhawk is a thing of beauty.
Thank you for the most interesting links to whale-fall and micro-naps.
A crazy time of the year for travel, and then "opps!"
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