Moonrise

Clearish skies and another wonderful moonrise. Now the weathers better we can sit in the cabin at the end of the garden and look out towards the lighthouse, the ships building the wind farm and somewhere far over the horizon Esbjerg. On calm nights like these the moon casts a path of pure white light on the sea . A good glass of Pomerol makes the sight even more mesmerizing. The news informs us that America's President elect and Mute Egede ,the Danish Prime Minister, have had a 'testy' conversation over Greenland. This makes us wonder if 'testy' is the new and less brutal way of saying fractious. A Swedish song being played on the end of day radio. It manages to be both mysterious and beautiful :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FW3xtQs4U

For the last three days we've also had glorious salmon pink dawns. We're not the only ones up early to watch the morning light show. The dog walkers are out in force this morning which means the beach is full of happy hounds. For a dog what can beat going for a walk, greeting friends, chasing balls and getting wet ? In the car park there are eight cars parked in a row with their tail gates up and their owners patiently toweling their mutts dry or combing out sand. The dogs all have that ' shall we go back and do that again ?' look.

We stop off at the Botanic Gardens for some plants for the gaps in the borders where the November winter winds killed off whatever was planted there. None of our tree peonies seem to have survived the cold. The botanic gardens are the best ( and cheapest ) place to buy good quality and unusual plants.

A sign on a noticeboard informing us that attempts are underway at reintroducing the Holly Blue Butterfly. I think I might have seen one last summer but didn't think of taking a picture. We have both downloaded the ap to be ready for any future sightings.

In town the souvenir shops are presenting a brave 'off season'  face to the world. We've not seen a single soul in any of them this whole week. I've said it every day since the start of the year but a small town of 15,000 can be very quiet with 10,000 of its population gone. 

Tennis balls :https://defector.com/has-the-tennis-ball-gotten-worse

Avian flu ... again :https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/01/16/how-close-are-we-avian-flu-outbreak-escalating-pandemic-49241

Well worth watching the video clip teaser of this remarkable and surprising movie. The parents of the boy with the degenerative disease thought he was unknown but when he died tributes poured in from around the world. Not hundreds but thousands of them. His body only had the strength to click on a mouse but he had built up a vibrant and nuanced online persona. This raises all sorts of interesting questions about what life and death mean in an age that's moving towards AGI virtual reality :https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ibelin-release-date-trailer-news