The village is home to a number of 30 something academics who make the daily five minute commute into town. Holiday house swapping is a big thing with this demographic. A chance for local Scots to experience life in other, hopefully warmer, parts of the world. The other side of the equation come here looking for relief from their summer heat. Everyone is happy. 30 somethings with families rarely have anything breakable that's not already been broken so having someone else in the house isn't a risk. This morning we're passed by a Canadian father and three excited youngsters heading to the beach. Mother, we're told, was up late last night unpacking and is having a 'lie in'. The youngsters are at that age where life is all about adventure and sleep is impossible.
Despite the early hour folks are also out and about on the sand below the old castle. It's been cloudy overnight and the air has retained much of yesterdays warmth. Unbelievably, the summer schools are already in their wind down stage. Soon the bemused teenagers will be heading home :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onYec3tDe8 .
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An idiot owner has allowed their dog off the lead by the sheep field. It's leapt over the boundary fence and badly bitten one of the nursing mothers. The ranger tells us that after being taken to the vet the ewe is nervous but otherwise fine. Two other dog owners saw what was happening and intervened. The culprit ( some form of terrier ) and its owner ran off.
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Radio Scotland is in the groove this morning :https://youtu.be/RsELrcVNzG0?t=102
Must be a summer intern doing the breakfast radio music schedule. This is also played :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlbwLzUZEhk
African borders :https://www.noemamag.com/the-surprising-durability-of-africas-colonial-borders/
The earliest bird song :https://gizmodo.com/this-dinosaur-probably-chirped-like-a-bird-2000631482
8 comments:
When our children were young, house exchanging was a wonderfully affordable way for us to experience life in far-flung places or for lengths of time we wouldn't otherwise have managed. A particularly memorable exchange in LA, where we became so integrated into the neighbourhood that people were telling us just to stay on and that our kids could walk to school with theirs when school restarted. Kevin Costner lived just up the street, and one family we became friendly with had a message of his on their answerphone which the wife would play just to swoon over.
Meant also to say - how dreadful about the dog worrying.
Hari OM
I am constantly disappointed at the few ignorant dog walkers who think the signs are not meant for them. They're the ones, I suppose, who also think leaving the dog poo bag on the fence or tree is just fine... .... (grumpy old) YAM xx
As (I hope) a responsible dog owner, I am at a loss to understand the few who just don't seem to care about letting their dogs run wild, no matter where they are, not just around livestock. We live in an urban area so walking dogs on the lead is compulsory, yet there are still the few that are allowed to run around off lead. These owners are usually the ones who don't even bother to pick up either, as I've found lately outside my gate each morning!
Some people shouldn't care for dogs, dogs will be dogs, the human is responsible for making sure they do no harm and don't get hurt.
I'm glad the ewe is OK. The article about dinosaur bird song was fascinating. We often feel we can see the residual dinosaur in our parrots, particularly in their feet, but this is a new angle. At the moment, our African Grey is downstairs whistling the Queen of the Night's aria from the Magic Flute mixed in with bits of Reveille. Fun to imagine a dinosaur doing the same.
Irresponsible dog owners are inexcusable.
Maybe the dog slipped its lead?
It was fun seeing a drone's eye view of St Andrews and piecing together your many stills into a cohesive landscape.
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