Escape.

It rained overnight but we wake to a beautiful morning. Down by the shore  the Cormorants are sunning themselves on the rocks and the local deer family are contentedly breakfasting on the new grass shoots. Puppy is keen to join us but is intercepted by the farmers wife. Her husband spent two hours on Sunday morning 'escape proofing' the garden and ensuring all the gaps in the fence were closed with chicken wire. I fear his handiwork may be put to the test .... soon. I'll also put money on the fact that it is impossible to stop a determined Jack Russell from escaping when bacon rolls with the golf course ground keepers are on offer.

This mornings car radio music is introduced as being from a 'different era'. It might as well be from a different universe :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_gzzCLSct4 I can vaguely remember it.

In town the house with the table covered in piles of exam papers has a jaunty jar of carnations in the window. St Andrews has more dogs that any town we've ever been in and more houses with flowers in windows. The student cafe a few doors down is already doing a roaring trade with youngsters en route to the library. They block the pavement and spill onto the road - which is what students do. To them it seems as if cars,  local residents and anyone over the age of 25 are either invisible or don't exist.

The bakers is once again laser focused on the student demographic.  Fudge donuts are firmly at the centre of the new weeks window display.

So starts a bright and sunny Monday morning in a small college town on the North Sea. 

Fog harvesting :https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/02/20/fog-harvesting-water-drinking-agriculture-worlds-driest-regions

Cults: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-have-cults-shaped-american-history

This seems illogical :https://www.semafor.com/article/02/20/2025/corporations-dig-deeper-using-bunkers-to-secure-data