Sunday, July 27, 2025

Hints

The birds already starting to feast on the rosehips. A dozen chaffinches busy pecking away at them this morning.


In town they've started collecting for the Poppy appeal.


Yesterdays newspapers still on display in the small supermarket. The Sunday editions haven't been put out yet by the staff. The lead story is the arrival in the country of a golf club owner visiting his Scottish properties. Apparently 6,000 police are on duty although the 'showery' weather has kept the protesters away.


We're surprised to discover that in the four days since we were last out for a walk on the dunes the sheep have been busy. A dozen tiny new born  heads peeping up from the long grass. The mothers seem exhausted.


Out here on the coast we catch sight of the first of the berry pickers. A woman in a white linen suit and matching broad brimmed hat ( clearly a holiday maker ) is zigzagging from side to side down the farm track snacking as she goes. She holds her mobile phone in one hand and picks berries with the other. They're far from ripe so she may soon regret her foraging adventure. 'The Font' wonders aloud if a white linen suit is the most practical thing to wear when berry picking.


The rain has stopped the wheat from being harvested. I'd expect that to change and for the farmer to catch up during the coming week. 

Talk in the village has now turned to the harvest festival celebrations. There are more than a few hints that the northern summer is drifting gently towards autumn.


If I was eight years old I'd reckon this was the epitome of cool :https://www.tesla.com/tesla-diner  The menu is certainly aimed at an eight year olds palate :https://www.tesla.com/diner-webapp/menu/#8869b4bb-c066-4787-b237-72728628a4ad

Amish kids and allergies :https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/amish-dont-develop-allergies-but-why/

French food goes Japanese:https://www.muraecovillage.com/

Steps in Colorado :https://coloradosprings.gov/manitouincline


10 comments:

Anonymous said...

The new Tesla Diner reminded me of watching "The Jetsons" when I was a child.

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari Om
Struth, Poppy Scotland are keen on it... and we thought Easter and Christmas started early... YAM xx

Lisa in France said...

Mura Village looks promising, but I wonder if it will succeed. A difference we've noticed between France and Japan is that there is less interest here in eating authentic foreign food. In Japan there will often be both "Japanified" restaurants and those serving more authentic food. So you have the "Italian" restaurants with Tabasco on every table and then you will have restaurants serving absolutely authentic regional Italian cuisines. In at least our part of France, everything is Frenchified, so while every supermarket sells sushi, it's all salmon or avocado and cheese. There doesn't seem to be much of a demand for the real thing here with regard to foreign cuisines. Maybe it's different in Paris?

Linda said...

Perhaps the white linen woman is the same person as an adjacent plot holder when we had an allotment in Edinburgh. She used to tend her plot in an all-white ensemble, which amazed me. I just have to step into the garden and am covered in earth/mud immediately. Annoyingly, she had a pretty perfect allotment.

Angus said...

Our decade and a half in France taught us that the French don't get foreign food. We were stunned by what local restaurants would do to supposedly Italian cuisine although the worst was an Indian restaurant in Paris that served curry with green, red and blue rice.

Anonymous said...

I had to smile at what a big difference between the Tesla Diner Menu and the Eco-Japanese French food.

Travel said...

Feel free to host the golf club owner for as long as possible.

waterdog said...

Very few remember the reason behind the Poppies.
JoAnn in Maryland

Vancouver Barbara said...

They have the Manitou Incline, in North Vancouver we have the Grouse Grind which may be as challenging, if not more so. I know people who do it every day!

Anonymous said...

Oh, please no!