A few dog walkers far ahead of us and a few behind. Apart from that we have the pre-seven am beach to ourselves. The woman with the Briard is talking on the phone while throwing the ball for her dog. At one point she gets the two mixed up and throws her phone rather than the ball. Multi-tasking is not everyones forte. She screams, swears and runs after it. The phone although wet and covered in sand seems to have survived. We pass by leaving her chatting away to whoever was on the other end before the mishap happened. The Briard trots happily along behind.
In town the tour groups are out and about early. A tall young man in a beanie hat is doing his best to talk to a group of a dozen or so folks from Milwaukee. The other half of his group are less diligent and are either strung out in a long line back towards their bus or are looking in the window of the Christmas shop and wondering when it will open. The visitors are all dressed for the heat. It got to 26 degrees here yesterday although a more 'refreshing ' 21 is expected today. In the Great Glen they're preparing for an earth shattering 29 degrees this afternoon.
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Back out at the coast the German naturists in their silver Mercedes van are still in their parking spot by the heron pond . They're sunbathing. We turn back to allow them privacy. I wonder how long they'll stay ? Presumably they'll need to head off to a supermarket soon. Their arrival is THE topic of conversation in the village. It's not every day German naturists show up here. In fact according to the collective memory of the locals this is the first time naturism has ever been a thing. Opinion is fairly evenly split between those who think this marks the end of civilization as we know it and those who are delighted that the weather is ( briefly ) good enough to bare all.
Travel notes. Germany v Italy : https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/notes-on-northern-italy
For tennis fans :https://post.substack.com/p/wimbledon-unstacked
Shorter days :https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earth-just-had-a-freakishly-short-day-but-the-fastest-day-of-the-year-is-yet-to-come
This seems important :https://iai.tv/articles/the-first-great-joke-told-by-ai-might-be-the-last-one-humans-hear-auid-3251?_auid=2020
7 comments:
With the way that online camper van communities operate, and within that the naturist persuasion (although I stress that I have no direct knowledge of the latter!), the village may find that it sees more than one lot of naked campers this summer.
Hari OM
As always, your links absorbed an hour or so of my morning! The AI and the UTC article both fascinating...though tales of horror could be woven from them. Thank goodnes one is not inclined to anxiety about the future to the point of being crippled in the now! YAM xx
My thoughts echo Linda's. Just think, if the temperatures continue to climb, your little spot of Paradise could be THE place to go for sun bathing au natural. You could open an impromptu café to save the bathers having to get dressed to go into town! For those looking for interesting local fare, a Haggis "buttie" would be a best seller!
I for one am very glad to know there's good Chinese food to be had in Milan. Angus's posts are a never-ending source of vital information.
Clothing is to protect us from the weather, with warmer weather, clothing becomes more of a social construct, than a necessity.
Agreed!
I like the idea of setting up a cafe for the naturists to save them a trip into town, possibly even set up a grocery service.
JoAnn in Maryland
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