High tides and a Hunters moon.

We watch the latest episode of David Olusogas history series A House through time . Each programme looks at the residents of a particular house across the years. In this series the focus is on the inhabitants of a block of flats in Berlin and another in London :https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jwkc2w.  Residents of the Berlin apartments include a Togolese chef, a school teacher and a Jewish war veteran. Episode 1 finishes in the mid 1930's and leaves the viewer at the stage where politics and the individual are about to collide. You want to shout ' Get out while you can !' The best thing we've seen in ages. The television we brought with us from France is beginning To show its age and the quality of the sound has become 'variable'. We shall head off into Dundee later today to look for a possible replacement.

Out on the beach we find that the high tides associated with this weeks  Hunters Moon have swept away the sand dunes. These had  been painstakingly restored by the beach rangers since the storms in March.  At the start of the week the dunes ran up to the edge of the fence. Now the fence is under threat.  I'd guess that in the last 24 hours another 5 feet have gone.

The fishmonger has cod, lemon sole and dressed crab. We're up early thanks to a low flying military aircraft heading out to check on Russians in the North Sea. Another aircraft follows ten minutes later and soon the sky is throbbing with the sound of Typhoons taking off from the airbase on the other side of the bay. 

The fishmonger also has some freshly landed halibut but we're all fished out and  decide to come back later in the week.

Half a dozen vans are about to set off into town to sell and  deliver todays catch. This is something you won't see in London.

Next week is revision week and a large percentage of the undergraduates are either heading home or heading off to the airport to catch  Ryan Air flights to somewhere warmer. First year medics will be trying to absorb the tsunami of information they've received in the last six weeks. When the youngsters get back the clocks will have changed , it will be dark by mid-afternoon and the town will have that Dickensian street lamp lit winter magic .

Remote and modern. Would you, could you, live here ?  :https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/writers-house/

Scandinavian visitors have arrived. A sure sign autumn is ending :https://isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com/

This was interesting :https://www.semafor.com/article/10/15/2024/no-matter-who-wins-the-country-is-moving-to-the-right