Routine resumed.

The golf tournament has now ended and this morning the town has a post party feel to it. The private jets roared over the village late last night taking their occupants  back to the balmier weather of Florida. I counted eight heading off. More will probably go this morning.

After dismal weather on Saturday the last days play was wonderful and the crowds enormous. One of the members of the Royal and Ancient tells us that the decision to halt play on Saturday was easy. When the golf balls roll of their own accord across the greens you know its time to call it quits. At the start of the weekend they were 'scooting' across the grass. Robert MacIntyre - a Scots guy - won which shows some sort of karma after the treatment he got from the American fans at the Ryder Cup.

The Tiger/Timberlake sports bar has already established itself as a favoured watering hole among the 18-21 crowd. As we headed home after a Sunday evening  concert in the auld kirk we were surprised to see that a lengthy line had formed waiting to get in.

This morning down by the harbour we see a man standing on a barrel. We pass him by quickly before he has a chance to engage us in conversation. Standing on a barrel is as clear a warning sign as you can get that conversation should be avoided.

A solitary swimmer in the salt water pool. As we walk by a group of a dozen or so students go down for a start of day dip. The girls do lengths. The boys do belly flops. The sound of their exuberance reaches us as we pass the old cannons by the cathedral. None of them has brought towels which will condemn them to a long, cold , squelchy walk back to their dorm rooms after their morning immersion. The saner amongst them may try to take off their swim suits and put on their outer clothes but that presents different challenges on a small busy beach if you don't have a towel.

Pumpkins make an appearance at £2 each.

We haven't seen geese in a week. We'd assumed their migration was well and truly over. This morning twenty or so come flying overhead. Are they the last departures of the year or the outliers of a second wave ?

Gulliver meets Peter Thiel :https://firstthings.com/voyages-to-the-end-of-the-world/

Parking tickets ... or not ? :https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2025-09-30/can-driverless-cars-get-tickets-what-happened-when-bay-area-police-pulled-over-a-waymo

Meddling with foreign policy can be a bad idea :https://substack.com/home/post/p-174902489

France - a busy day. A few of the comments  are as insightful as the article - others aren't :https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-411-the-twilight-of-macronisme