Sunday morning. A gentleman on the radio compares the experience of driving a new car to 'the time the K just hit'. This is not a phrase either of us had ever heard before. It is also a phrase neither of us is ever likely to use.
The pace of life around here has kicked up a couple of notches. The pavements busy with youngsters who have arrived on the overnight sleeper train . They're being dropped off outside their dorms by station cabs and attempting to pull wheelie bags along uneven pavements. The influx that has been building over the last four or five days is moving to a new level. All the traits of the late teen are on display - some are mild mannered, others earnestly cheerful, a few self assured and all of them incurably naive in a ' What have I got myself into ?' way.
One of the lambs in the field by the shore has discovered that the grass on the other side of the fence is greener and juicier. It pulls its head back into safety as we pass.
Back out in the quiet of the coast we can see the farmer loading up the last of the hay bales down by the heron pond. The farm is getting ship shape and squared away in time for winter. Plans are being laid for the village Harvest Festival. The young American and Canadian fathers are walking their youngsters down to the rocks. They caught a dozen mackerel yesterday and hope to do the same again today. I bet their wives didn't think they'd be gutting mackerel when they agreed to start a new life abroad.
This mornings car radio music :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qheZD5VtE
There are 96 million birders in America if these numbers are to be believed. I've never seen a birder in the US :https://www.audubon.org/magazine/birding-booming-hobby-and-big-business
The true size of Africa :https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-wants-a-new-map/
Sunday morning ponder :https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-interregnum
1 comment:
Hari Om
Oh yes, Caramac - it was an absolute favourite of mine in childhood... I look forward to your report. And you have seen birders in the US, Angus, you just haven't recognised them out of the habitat... 😉 YAM xx
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