Getting the most out of the day.

Puppy knows exactly how to get the most out of these shortening autumn days. She gets up at six thirty, pushes the garden gate open and positions herself at the top of the barley field. There she waits for 1) a  villager out walking their dog 2) her elder sister or 3) the inhabitants of The Last Wee House Before Denmark. She then tags along for a walk and a chat or, if it's her sister, engages in some noisy horse play. 

When bored ( which is a low threshold )  she chases the crows or clambers up onto a haystack to look for something more exciting to do. This morning she spies a large hare and is soon in hot pursuit. The hare has little to fear as Puppy's directional honing skills need to be worked on tend to get lost in the start of day enthusiasm.

The farmers wife has found the satellite tracker to be a marvel. Puppy has not made it onto the 5 star hotels golf course since it was attached to her collar. This makes life for everyone in the village much easier.

The local paper has a feature on the upcoming silage competition. We are left to ponder the news that  'finalists in the competition will be asked to provide fresh silage samples for live judging'.

This morning there's a horse drawn ploughing competition in the field by the right angled turn in the road. The car park already filing up with young fathers bringing  their toddlers to see the horses. We wave at our Canadian and New Zealand neighbours who seem to have taken to small village life with remarkable ease. Rural Scotland is settling into its unhurried late autumn routines. The harvest festival dinner is the next highlight in our social calendar.

A modern surrealist British artist :https://www.alexchinneck.com/

Typing v writing :https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/recovery-from-brain-injury/202510/research-identifies-the-right-way-to-write

Oldest language and the Pontic Steppe ( which was a term I'd not heard of )  :https://observatory.wiki/A_Scholar%E2%80%99s_Quest_to_Find_the_Ancestral_People_of_the_Most_Influential_Language_on_Earth

Bizarre story of the day :https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/irans-strange-scottish-obsession/

Frederick Douglass in Ireland :https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/what-frederick-douglass-learned-in