This thread on events in the morning news was good :https://x.com/samagreene/status/1993309588310122944
A week since we got off the boat. How time flies. Today the weather drizzly and dreich as we drive into town. On the radio a very English choice of music to start the day :https://youtu.be/PM9mVdb7M7o
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The supermarket tree remains stylishly minimalist. I'd assumed baubles would be added but this appears to be it.
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Hard to say whether the small Indian restaurant has decorated for Christmas or has simply brought out the olive trees from the inside for an 'airing'.
Here in the village preparations are underway for Saturday nights St Andrews Day ceilidh. Angus has delivered 6 bottles of Malbec and 6 of Pinot Grigio to the village hall kitchen.
In Starbucks this morning two families from Colorado are amazed to discover that they're both here for the university 'Open Day'. They chat, uninhibitedly, with a ' Jeez. What are the chances of that ! ' sense of amazement. By the time we leave the fathers are arranging a round at the golf course down the coast.
Shopping carts. I do. Do you ? :https://behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts-a-somewhat-scientific-investigation/
Smaller still and smaller :https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-minimal-that-it-challenges-definitions-of-life-20251124/
From 1970's fad into the mainstream :https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/11/24/anatomy-food-myth-49837
Not what I expected from a Texas school :https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/trumps-ukraine-fiasco
Native Americans have Japanese ancestry ? :https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/05/first-americans-may-have-sailed-from-asia
What an embarrassment for Lufthansa :https://www.euractiv.com/news/three-eu-prime-ministers-stranded-after-flight-to-angola-fails-to-take-off/
9 comments:
I like the reindeer biscuits.
I like the reindeer biscuits too!
Interesting read about the shopping carts. As noted in the article, it's quite the norm in Europe to "pay" for your cart by inserting money (usually a euro). This means most carts are reurned to the correct place. The most annoying I've found are those that are just abandoned in an empty parking space.
Hari OM
If it's covered, it's a pie. A tart has no cover. Surely the baker knows this?!!!
Since getting my rollator, I have not used a shopping trolley. I am able to perch a standard basket on the seat and then the bags when filled. But when I did (or very occasionally still do) use a trolley, it most definitely gets returned to the nearest 'corral'. I can't say I have observed anything different anywhere else in my travels around the Bonny Land... but back in OZ I recall it was a bit of a problem. Sheer laziness of shoppers - or mischief of youths. YAM xx
Ali's shopping cart policy is effective and works well. I wish more stores in the US would do the same. I often observe tourists from away who leave their carts helter skelter and sometimes ponder at their indifference.
Alas for truly diagnosed Celiac's who often suffer the slings and arrows of scoffers thinking we're following a fad diet. I wish. A good article regarding a complicated and challenging health problem.
That French flash mob video is terrific. As for shopping carts, I often find myself wondering how people would react if American stores adopted the European practice - mass hysteria of some sort, I would imagine. Also interesting to read about the potential link between Native Americans and the Japanese Ainu. My kids, who are adopted, are from an indigenous Taiwanese tribe that has been traced back genetically to New Zealand. My daughter is often mistaken as Filipino or Hawaiian, it's all the same Polynesian line. People traveled amazing distances.
What are the chances of to Dads from Colorado being interested in playing golf? If I had considered schools in Scotland, maybe Dad would have paid?
I thoroughly enjoyed the French flash mob video. As for shopping carts, most stores in Canada require a loonie ($1 coin) to unlock the carts. If you want your loonie back, you have to return the carts to the corral and attach them to the cart in front. However, recently Walmart has removed this requirement so I guess I can expect more shopping carts dents to add to the three I already have to my otherwise unblemished vehicle. I rarely shop at the American owned Walmart anymore anyway so here is some extra incentive to not shop there.
The French flashmob was spectacular! Thanks for sharing. And, yes, I return my shopping carts :)
The Parisian flash mob was beautiful. Very stylish.
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