Grumpy workmen

We go to a lecture on cognition and the ways in which  social media is changing it. On our way back the weather good enough - just -  to let us stop off at the pub facing the Divinity School for a quick night cap. We find an outside table under the welcome warmth of the gas heater. Four well turned out American girls at the next table are discussing the towns party life. One girl damns the 'night club' at the other end of the street -  'Its got decor 18 year olds might like '. At the grand old age of  21 she is altogether more sophisticated when it comes to watering holes .... and a hardened 'I'm so over him' cynic when it comes to males and their understanding of the concept of 'commitment'.  Her latest ex was evisceratingly described as 'pretty and well spoken but immature'. We also discover from snippets of  their conversation that applications from the States to come here for next year has ( so far )  risen 20% from 2025's already elevated numbers. For some courses SAT scores of 1500 are now the acceptance threshold. We wonder if we'd be smart enough to get accepted now.

What a morning. In one direction the sun rising over the sea.

In the other direction the sort of rainbow that makes other rainbows pale into insignificance . It straddles much of the Old Course .

We detour by the new sports bar. There are two workmen standing outside who grumpily tell us we can't go into the reception to take a photograph. " It's an active building site and too dangerous ". Angus feels like pointing out that the only activity he can see is the two of them smoking a cigarette but he keeps this thought to himself. A sign informs us that the new bars burgers have been 'designed to be held in one hand leaving the other free to play darts'. The owners look rather like Little League Dads.

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Faroe Island restaurants :https://x.com/patrickc/status/1975551671477641330?s=61

Natural origami :https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/animals-use-origami-physics-natures-folds

The Orkney chair is being reinvented :https://scottishfurnituremakers.org.uk/exhibitions/ash-rise/the-work/

Time :https://www.everymansuniverse.com/p/when-will-the-universe-s-lights-go-out