A silver Mercedes motor home with Tubingen plates comes down the farm track just before midnight. This morning we find it parked near the heron pond. A couple are sitting on folding chairs under a pull out awning taking in the sea view and enjoying breakfast. They are naturists. This is an unusual pastime on this exposed and windswept coast and is perhaps the clearest sign yet that global warming is a thing. You most certainly wouldn't want to try being a naturist here by the North Sea in February. The weather forecast calls for 26 degree temperatures this afternoon .
I'm guessing the Russians are busy out in the North Sea. As we turn for home four jets , afterburners on, head off at high speed towards Denmark.
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Koala mortality :https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/koalas-spend-just-10-minutes-a-day-on-the-ground-and-thats-when-most-die/
It's not just a boy thing :https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-are-so-many-more-women-being-diagnosed-with-adhd-180986909/
Climate change :https://bsky.app/profile/whitehouse.senate.gov/post/3ltkssutffc2x
More Canadian history :https://www.americanheritage.com/plight-massachusetts-loyalists?issue=133708
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On our journey back to the north of Scotland from Sweden we stayed a night in a lovely Airbnb in the Danish countryside. A wing of an historic thatched cottage (we aim only to stay in Airbnbs that are part of the owners' home, or a cabin in the garden, so as not to block housing for local people). Beautifully furnished inside, as only the Danes can. But we were rather astounded to read in the house instruction manual that we should "feel free to walk around the house and the garden naked" and then the letters FKK. A quick internet search revealed this to be a German naturist organisation. Needless to say, being Scottish we did not take them up on this invitation. When we met the host on arrival we did notice that she was remarkably suntanned. She was wearing a loose cotton shift, and I wondered later if she'd just thrown it on when the doorbell rang.
Most bodies look their best when covered. Some of us are getting to the point where a full body covering would be advisable.
Hari OM
Naturism is quite big in Australia too - and the one thing I learned about that particular 'community' is that weather is not a consideration - so you might be surprised had those folk turned up in February! Ta for the Koala article... as for the Candian history, for those who are interested, Willie Dalrymple and Anita Anand have been focusing on the full run of it on the Empire Podcast (which is and absolute blast of a show and I cannot recommend it highly enough). YAM xx
I agree that most bodies look best when covered. I hope that the conservationists can find a solution to the koala crisis. They seem so helpless.
JoAnn in Maryland
Reading about the naturists somehow reminded me that it's about time to watch "A Shot in the Dark" again. The article about the Royalists in Massachusetts was fascinating.
I find the opposite to be true. It's the ill fitted clothes that make the body look bad. The body itself is beautiful.
I was both delighted and astonished to read about the German naturists enjoying their chosen spot and breakfast. Definitely something that could never happen here in stodgy/conservative New England, or for that matter, in any other public place here in the states. The local police phones lines would be lit up like the Christmas tree in Times Square with complaint calls. And sadly, they would very likely be arrested on the spot. *sigh* As always, I really enjoyed your diverse and interesting links today.
Thank you for a last look at the splendid poppies. They have cheered me immensely, as did the sunflowers once upon a time in a little village in France.
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