How chivalrous !

A group of lanky eighteen year old Canadian boys are heading off to the golf driving range. They're wearing tee shirts with the logo ' St Andrews Golf Experience Summer 2025 '. They stop to talk to some Italian girls sunbathing on the lawn in front of the library. The Italian girls are here for a six week intensive language course. The young golfers offer to meet up later to help them with their English. How chivalrous ! We have now entered that time of year when parents send their late teen youngsters off to summer schools in Scotland for the holidays. Parents like to think there is a limit to the mischief that teenagers can get up to in a small Scottish coastal town. Teenagers have a different view. For the university  renting out the empty halls of residence is a nice source of revenues.

The university gardeners have branched out from their usual highly colourful  begonia infused uniformity and have created a Japanese Zen garden in front of the anthropology department. The use of gravel will- hopefully- be less obvious when the plants finally grow.

Today the tour groups are starting early.

Down by the first tee things are getting busy. The time keeper is hurrying the foursomes along to stop a traffic jam developing. Golfers about to set off on the sacred turf are in no mood to be moved along and mill around having their photos taken. Two gentlemen discover that shorts are not approved attire. They head back to their hotel to change into golf 'pants'. Unflattering comparisons with golf courses  'Stateside' are voiced. We leave the golfers explaining to a surprised Scottish couple with a whippet that the management here would benefit from a trip to Fort Myers ' to learn how things are done '.

On the beach two ladies are raising money for the the RNLI.  They talk to the passing dog owners. Behind them a woman is busy clearing out bracken from the dunes. It may be early but in summer people are busy. Anew electronic sign has been installed. It tells us todays water quality is excellent.

Italian archeology :https://reason.com/2025/06/06/the-dreadful-policies-halting-archeological-discoveries/

The end of Turkmenistans top tourist attraction :https://www.sciencealert.com/infamous-gateway-to-hell-fire-could-finally-stop-raging-after-50-years

Things to be thankful about :https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/carnivorous-plants-have-been-trapping-animals-for-millions-of-years-so-why-have-they-never-grown-larger-180986708/

There may be a benefit to chickpeas :https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chickpeas-cholesterol-beans-health

Forgotten stars of the 60's:https://www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/which-stars-are-being-forgotten-the