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Blogger having issues after yesterdays Amazon server outage. Formatting has an irritating randomness to it. In France there's been a tornado in Paris and ex-President Sarkozy starts a prison sentence. For an ex head of state this is a rare  accolade shared only ( or so the radio says ) with Marshal Petain and Louis XVI.

Learning is never done. This mornings breakfast news broadcasters all over the world are educating their listeners on the Insurrection Act and what it does, and does not, allow. 

The weather was good for the bacchanalian revelries of the students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxhfkBMt24 . There again they would have enjoyed themselves even if it had been snowing. Such are the joys of being eighteen.  Passing the old lecture theatres we hear a large group of them sing this old Scottish song in a slow and most un-Scottish way. It must be an American thing :https://youtu.be/Lz1LEYxFQ5Q?list=RDLz1LEYxFQ5Q&t=459

While the first years party the experienced and worldly wise nineteen and twenty year olds look on with that innate superiority that having survived a winter ( or two ) in Scotland can bestow.

The lawn outside chapel has, wisely, been roped off. Festivities have been moved to a quieter patch of grass out of sight.

4 new dogs have arrived in the art gallery :https://www.galleryfranklin.com/work/gemma-rees

Surprise of the day :https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/orange-cats-are-genetically-unique-indeed/

This is unusual :https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/something-from-space-may-have-just-struck-a-united-airlines-flight-over-utah/

A new opening in the Luberon :https://domainedelacavalerie.com/