Blessings.

 

The sun still shining. The Met Office is forecasting at least another ten days of this glorious weather. If you want to cross the Atlantic by boat or visit Scotland then May and September are the months to do it. This is when the northerly ocean weather systems are benign and the seas smooth and the air warm.  June, July and August tend to be  altogether less well behaved.

Right on cue the good strawberry farm opens up for the season. We take two punnets. The Bulgarian lady behind the counter is wrapped up against the cold. Her local Scots clientele are in shirt sleeves.

This morning there's a small fleet of film vans in the medical laboratory car park. 

We think the vans  must be something to do with the making of the sandcastles programme on the far end of the beach but it turns out they're something to do with  Peter and the Wolf. Christmas scheduling already a thing in television circles.

We watch a solitary workman drive up in a mechanical device that unfurls and then lifts him to the roof of the biochemistry building.

By the bakers we notice a rather wonderful Edwardian door. It's the entry to a group of student flats. How the glass has  survived generations of youthful exuberance is a miracle.

The roses on the outside of the house near the cinema in full bloom. There is much activity in front of the cinema which hints that someone is making an attempt to open up at least one of the bars in time for the arrival of peak thirsty golfer season.

Life in this small Scottish town might be provincial and quiet but in the sun these are transformed into blessings. The long faces on the students hurrying off to the library makes it clear that scheduling exams in this weather is cruel and unusual punishment.

Talking trees :https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/this-should-not-be-published-scientists-cast-doubt-on-study-claiming-trees-talk-before-solar-eclipses

An old South Downs hotel re-opens :https://thealfriston.com/

Cholesterol :https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-to-lower-cholesterol

Rethinking the economy :https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/making-gdp-great-again-a-complementary-approach/