Four yellow hammers in the garden this morning. Add to that the three corn buntings nesting in the stone walls in the courtyard and by six am we've seen enough endangered 'red' list birds to make a bird watchers day.
The wind is blowing and the surf is up. Usually, in weather like this, you'd expect the students to be out on the beach but it's a Monday morning and students have an aversion to Monday mornings. Two ladies out walking a Spaniel find a lobster creel with a lobster in it. The harbour master is called and someone will be along to deal with at soon.
The department of the university that deals with floral tributes has been busy. We count three new bouquets of flowers. Did they lay them out last night or first thing this morning ?
I'm guessing the new student cafe is now open. A man with a van shows up to deliver at least 200 litres of milk. Finding the door locked he leaves the milk 'hidden' between an olive tree and a dustbin.
The breakfast radio offers up a calm start to the day :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLW3Q7vWqOw
Hollywood concerns :https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/drones-spying-robberies-solutions-hollywood-1236166714/
A reopened sight in London :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQnCPaVu2Ig
Antarctica:https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-what-antarctica-would-look-like-with-no-ice
In Starbucks two gentlemen in Georgia Tech hats are discussing the shock news that's roiling the golf world ( although maybe not the Scottish part of it ) :https://x.com/GolfDigest/status/1903949575209074844
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Hari OM
Crikey - wonder how many bottles short that order will seem by the time it's taken inside... And I have to recant on my pricing comments the other day. Sis and I were at the Nat Gall yesterday and had a tea and cheese scone; amounting to the best part of eight quid each! I clearly haven't been eating out enough to appreciate the trend. On the plus side, that £4.20 cheese scone was of a size to be cut into three and delicious enough, generous enough, to count as lunch, and the tea was a mugful, not just a cup. And the New Contemporaries kept us enthralled. YAM xx
Fun post today. I loved the photo of the hidden milk. And good for the Font studying Japanese. The basics aren't too difficult - I had a partner in Tokyo who got by for four or five years with "left," "right," "straight ahead" and "this is the place" - as well as the essential "ohayoo" (good morning) and "konichi wa" (good day). (It would be "mou ippai" for "I'll have another one".) Here in France, we've been amazed by how many of the young people we meet can speak some rudimentary level of Japanese that they've picked up from anime and maybe manga, which seem similar to French bande dessinees. And the "bonjour"/"bonsoir" ritual is very Japanese.
So many diverse pictures that warrant a comment. A lost lobster kreel, the new student center, the beautiful daffodils, the Font’s willingness to absorb the Japanese language before your trip. Thank you.
I am sure you will master, hello, please, thank you, make it a double, what more do you really need.
'The same again please' is always useful.
The Antarctica link is quite interesting. The floral tributes are touching but I always want to remove the wrapping so the flowers might be seen.
Many moons ago I took two terms of basic Japanese, at a local night school, before going to Japan in 1986 when I went there for three weeks as part of a "study tour" while studying architecture at university. Lots of fun exploring (mostly free range) with fellow students, our NZ lecturers and some Japanese lecturers (with very organised activities!) plus a group of NZ architects travelling with us. I also spent a few days before the tour started with people I knew in Japan exploring Tokyo more, being take to restaurants (with no English menus or spoken so my friends ordered all our food and said only once when had eaten it they would tell us what it actually was which got me eating unexpected things!) plus staying in a capsule hotel just for the experience. As students we received 1/12 of our credits for the year by being given info (to read or not) and making a sketchbook of places and people. My most vivid memories are from when we randomly stopped to draw and write notes in our sketchbooks taking time to see things, rather than any of the 35mm film photos I still have. I am looking forward to hearing about your and The Font's tour of Japan.
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