The usual cast of dog walking characters on the beach. We greet them all with a hearty 'Good morning'. The ageing poodle with four arthritic paws is off to see the vet about new and more powerful painkillers. Todays big local news is something that Angus and President Trump find themselves wholly in agreement on :https://www.seabird.org/press-releases/devastating-news-for-scotland-s-seabirds-as-berwick-bank-is-consented
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We detour back to Starbucks via the club house.
An ultra-competitive group of Californians are playing each stroke of the Old Course as if their lives depended on it. This is golf as performative art.
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Off to the side a sound recordist and a cameraman are capturing the impressions of four gentlemen who have been on a golf tour. We listen as they describe their experiences of the three Trump courses ( awesome ) , Carnoustie ( unforgiving ), Royal Dornoch ( God damn difficult ) and now here ( truly humbling ). They have paid the camera crew to follow them as they played each course and captured the drama of every hole they've played. Providing posterity with a weeks worth of their insights and memories can't have been cheap.
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By the corner shop a young gull is displaying the glory of its juvenile feathers. The young gulls are fearless. So, sadly, are the cars that seem to have finished off half a dozen of them on the stretch of road that leads from the cinema to the roundabout.
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Blast from the past : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU
Breakfast table discussion point :https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/202507/women-are-more-competitive-with-each-other-than-are-men
Americans spend 4 hours a day on average thinking about money :https://www.empower.com/the-currency/money/money-on-the-mind-research?stream=business
AI :https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/making-sense-of-the-ai-revolution/
5 comments:
Hari OM
And clearly the leg covering decorum previously remarked upon has fallen by the wayside... YAM xx
The Royal and Ancient seems to be following Fife Council's municipal planting lead, which we were very impressed by on our recent visit. A welcome move from the Victorian bedding plant displays towards more sustainable, permanent plantings that also offer food for pollinators, which most traditional bedding schemes do not. Of the plants I can make out, the R&A seems to have gone for Salvia, Echinops (globe thistle), Perovskia (Russian sage), a variety of grasses, Santolina. These should all stand up to the coastal and Scottish weather, and as importantly, their stems in winter will provide interest unlike the bare ground of bedding schemes. (This is probably more than you wanted to know, but if you're a keen gardener and have done a garden design course it's an inevitable side-effect).
And to think we New Yorkers used to think of Californians as easy-going. I hope the ageing poodle gets some good medicine. We have an arthritic parrot who gets a little bit of Meloxicam every morning. It has helped her a lot, but she has to have a blood test done every couple of months to make sure it's not harming her liver. (Old age is tough on everyone.) That new golf course planting does look distinctly Mediterranean - it's interesting that these plants can also prosper in Scotland's climate.
Thank you for the Windmills of Your Mind video - a favorite of mine since first seeing The Thomas Crown Affair in the 1960s.
Nina
Mt parents had a policy, if you call in the wee hours of the night, someone better be dead, or they will be in the morning. Even playing St Andrews would have to wait until the next morning.
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