Great excitement. A black Volkswagen Polo 'R' with tinted windows was 'borrowed' by some joy riders on New Years Eve and left, carefully parked, on the grass verge by the village notice board. We know it's a Volkswagen Polo 'R' because the farmers youngest son informs us that the 'R' model is 'braw'. That's teenage for fast. After three days people started commenting on the presence of the car in a ' I wonder who still has family staying with them ? ' sort of way. The village grapevine soon provided an answer to that question - nobody. Calls have been made to the Police who will arrange for the vehicle to be collected and reunited with its lawful owner. ' Whatever will be next ?' asks the kirk treasurer in a scandalized tone of voice that suggests a stolen car is but one step away from big city reprobates dealing Molly behind the village potato barns...or worse.
Well below freezing this morning. The display on the dashboard says it's minus 3. That seems about right . The wooden ramp that leads down onto the sand covered in a thin but treacherous layer of frost.
One of the houses in the small street that runs down to the castle has an interesting tower. It looks wonderful but would make for a miserable home. You can be sure you'd forever be leaving the car keys on the top floor and climbing back up to fetch them.
Well I never : 2024's top 10 staircases:https://www.dezeen.com/2024/12/21/top-10-staircases-2024/ This was our favourite :https://www.dezeen.com/2024/07/13/westerpunt-studio-moto-concrete-lookout-point-belgium/
A little esoteric substack history and perspective :https://yawboadu.substack.com/p/from-pre-colonial-roots-to-independence
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Hari OM
Not even a glimmer of daybreak over the Cowal as of 0750h... suspect very heavy cloud cover. Am with you on the staircase - and appreciative of the Sudan article. A conflict that flies under the radar. YAM xx
Three inches of snow in Aberdeenshire. But the dog needs walking
A dusting of snow here in DC last night. I think I would put my office at the top of the tower.
The tower would be useful as a place to store those things you should actually throw out, but don't, just in case you need them again!
Warm and sunny with a hazy blue sky here today.
Coppa's Girl (still having trouble with Google!)
Minus 3 this morning, now zero at 14:30-ish
I liked the Cadenza staircase - hopeless for dogs or toddlers!
-8, wind chill -15, no snow, bright shining sun, no clouds. Perfect day on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
Well, I'll be - we actually happen to have a black VW "R", safely parked in our driveway. We bought it when we moved to France and it is indeed "braw". It is unfortunately not a perfect fit for our narrow twisting roads and we haven't made it out to the Autobahn yet, so we are now looking for something a little better-mannered but still peppy to replace it, probably a plug-in hybrid, almost certainly not a BMW. I loved staircases and enjoyed the article, although any house with a floating staircase was an automatic "no" for us.
The Belgian staircase was also my favorite, and I agree with Lisa, floating staircases make me dizzy just looking at them. It's 50
in LA and very clear. Beautiful, but we need some rain.
My VW R is sitting in our garage. It is bright yellow and yes, they can go fast, however, they are not very accommodating to rural New Zealand roads. I managed to blow out four tyres in the first six months of owning it. Car's designed for the highways of Europe, don't like to many pot holes caused by logging/stock trucks. But I love it.
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