Snow threatens but thinks better of it. Instead we get some light drizzle. By the time we head out on our morning walk it's brightening up. The coming week is forecast to be much warmer with temperatures in double digits. After two weeks spent bobbing around in the Arctic Circle that seems almost tropical.
Late last night the farmer turned up at the door with a fine 8 foot Christmas tree. Usually he delivers the tree the week before Christmas. " I'm busy wi' harvesting the sprouts so thought I'd get it done the now ". After reminding me - again - that I'd promised a ' wee bit of wine ' for the St Andrews day dinner he heads off to drop off the rest of his trees. The village windows will be festive early this year. Overnight I've left the tree propped up against the side of the porch. I'll bring the tree inside later today. Decorating it may be delayed for a week or so.
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The roads are blocked in two places. Coming into town and on the road leaving it. Angus mutters under his breath at the idiocy of it.
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The gentlemens outfitters has a thing for black shirts and floral ties. There is presumably a market for this.
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Remedial math :https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grades-stop-meaning-anything
The 'in' chefs new Manhattan restaurant :https://www.cove-nyc.com/
This is the best I've seen on the subject :https://samf.substack.com/p/how-should-ukraine-respond
Brexit has been much worse than forecast :https://www.nber.org/papers/w34459
Goodbye rats. Hello puffins :https://www.ulsterwildlife.org/nature-reserves/isle-muck
The role of serendipity in life:https://uschinadialogue.georgetown.edu/features/faculty-spotlight-an-interview-with-dennis-wilder
Thoughts for Shakespeare lovers :https://raggedfrontier.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/richard-ii-just-the-takeaways/
AI reworking of an old tune written by a Church of Scotland minister in the early 1800's. The synthetic voice is remarkable but the graphics are cringeworthy. The presence of so many red coats ( and the wrong flag ) hints this may have been done in France . Whatever its faults AI is making huge leaps forward.:https://youtu.be/7kkRQwlj_ls?t=137
8 comments:
Good morning, from a Steichen Aberdeenshire.
I once had to sing Rule Britannia with a choir. It is a fiendish piece of music
Hari OM
On balance, I'd rather the roads were getting repaired than not.. deep breaths, Angus! I would have liked to have read the Freedman piece, but it's behind a paywall. My heart aches for Ukraine and the 'rock and hard place' predicament... YAM xx
The wreath making class would interest me. The picture of the black sheep is delightful; their faces make me smile.
That combination in the menswear store window is really something.
The sheep are always wonderful to see. Stay warm.
I hit a paywall on the link about Ukraine. Russia’s economy appears to be collapsing if what I’m reading and seeing is correct. When will its people realize that Putin does not value human life, whether it’s Ukraine or his even his own people. He won’t stop at Ukraine. As part of the peace agreement, the USA should agree to not profit from it in Russia or Ukraine in any way shape or form.
Steichen was “dreich” when it left my fingertips
It's not the black shirt and floral tie that bother me. It's that horrendous blazer.
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