One of the villagers has been to listen to Nicola Sturgeon, the former leader of the Scottish National Party, give a talk in town. More than 600 people were in the audience and 540 copies of her new biography sold. Such was the turn out the speech had to be given in one of the larger university lecture halls. Questions ranged from the friendly to the politely antagonistic.
As we talk a grain hopper rolls by. All the wheat and barley around us has been harvested and now it's the turn of the last small field far beyond the heron pond . A cloud of chaff slowly rising into the air marks where the farmer is working.
The fancy new hotel near the golf course is proving to be a stop off point for dog walkers and their pooches.
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On a side street that's full of B & B's one plain little house house stands out. It has 'Y' shaped drainage pipes on its street facing wall. Why would you do this ? Perhaps the top floor has had rooms added at some point and the only way to provide them with plumbing was by putting the water pipes on the outside. It is not an architectural solution to be copied.
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An interesting, if esoteric, article :https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-be-a-good-intelligence-analyst
These clever dogs deserve a bonus :https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1956910948754628924
Travel notes from a grumpy and innocent Brit in Arlington:https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/virginia-notes and here :https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/arlington-travel-notesAir conditioning 'winning' in Germany ? :https://x.com/AndrewHammel1/status/1957018808272515560
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Thank you for the link to the Brit starting a new job in DC. His visit to the launderette in Arlington with the line ' Very little English was spoken, apart from by a man who seemed only to speak to himself' catches the essence of life here in the US. I laughed out loud !
The central Y arrangement is one thing, but the obvious Soil Pipes on the house to it's left are another!
Hari OM
errrmmm. If Potty means 'potty pipes', s/he is getting a bit mixed up. The Y arrangement is clearly the addition of toilets to the rooms for B&B purposes. Those pipes on the left (and to the right) are original down pipes from guttering - given away by the bowl at the top of each, to limit splashing as rainwater gushes from the rones... I know those are sewer pipes because something of a similar sort had to be done at the back of our late Victorian building when they stuck loos into what would once have been the coal cupboard/box room... but if said cupboards had been at the front, well, that's how it would look! YAM xx
It's nice that the fancy new hotel is proving a friendly place for dogs and their people. Wonderful links today. I enjoyed the musings of the grumpy Brit. Also enjoyed reading another in this recent bunch of articles on air conditioning in Europe. When I was a kid in New Jersey, we did not have air conditioning. Instead, we had an industrial fan that my father had salvaged somewhere installed in the attic. When we turned it on at bedtime, it always sounded like an airplane was taking off in the corridor, but it did the trick - until it didn't anymore.
Arlington is just around the corner from me (I am in Alexandria.) It is fun to read what others think of us.
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