The young gulls have finally shed their brown adolescent plumage and have made the transition into adulthood. There's a line of them sitting atop the lobster creels on the quayside. They ignore us with a level of disdain that only young seagulls can muster. There can be no doubting that they consider themselves to be the real rulers here.
This mornings excitement - or what passes for it around here - is provided by a large truck which parks on the shopping street and disgorges a series of bulky stainless steel contraptions. The fish and chip shop by the supermarket is having its kitchen upgraded. Old fryer units are taken out and new, environmentally friendly ones, are installed. This technology upgrade, it seems, will 'scrub' the smell of cooking oil from the air and reduce the risk of unintended oil 'spills'. The fish and chip shop owner says they will be back up and running tomorrow.
Christmas music #4 . From Santa Cruz CA some Scottish winter sounds :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gh8Xye_ZX0
Dogs :https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/man-and-dog-friendship
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Hari Om
Thank you for the waulking song... YAM xx
The Christmas music is stirring and enlivening - thank you.
Lovely music today. I also enjoyed your update on the young gulls. I have a weakness for audacious birds - gulls, jays, starlings and, here in France, magpies - birds with chutzpah.
I wonder if the wonders of St Andrews help convince parents to pay the tuition so they have a reason that they have to visit a few times.
Well done for finding the Christmas tree lights and baubles, but do you know where to find your sporran?
Had Alexandra Horowitz, the canine expert, been a professor at Barnard College (part of Columbia University in Manhattan) when I was there decades before, my life might have changed and I would have studied Dog instead of Russian history, language, and literature. Interesting what if!
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