Wednesday morning and the girls hockey team are out on the beach. There must be thirty of them. They move across the sand at a speed that older locals can only marvel at. The number of returning students is growing by the day. Finding a 'free' parking spot is now impossible but the pay by the hour spaces are still under utilized. Students tend to avoid them. The mountains of beer cans in the rugby lads front windows grow at a rate that reflects their dedication to pre-semester partying. In the village hall preparations for Burns Night continue apace. Tartan crepe paper is being stapled to the proscenium arch for a suitably 'Celtic' atmosphere.
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- In 2025 demand for fudge doughnuts passed the 1 million mark for the first time.
- They have two foreign products - baguettes made with French flour and Coffee Towers. The Coffee Towers are what the French would call Religieuse and were copied by a great aunt who discovered them on a family holiday to France in the 1950's.
- Until recently they had no need for an HR department. Employment, often for life, was based on a handshake. Health regulations surrounding Covid changed that and everything became more contractual in 2020.
Another of those questions I'd never thought of asking :https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/hand-dryers-more-bacteria-rep/
This cow is both clever and photogenic :https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/ever-seen-a-pet-cow-pick-up-a-broom-and-scratch-herself-with-it-you-have-now
More about that place :https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2026/01/14/us-military-has-a-long-history-in-greenland-from-wwii-to-cold-war/
I haven't thought of this poem in 50 years but this morning the first stanza seems to have been written for today :https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
Our local Professor of International Relations continues to be alarmed :https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/people-are-still-not-getting-trump
7 comments:
Hari Om
Sweet the the lass is standing with one of those mercurial empire biccies! Was reading about and watching that cow yesterday - lovely distraction from the rest of the news... did you catch Mark Carney's speech at Davos yesterday? Truly excellent and worth a listen. YAM xx
Yes, it seems the baker is quite proud of those all-purpose cookies! I agree with Yamini about Carney's speech. It's such a strange time - the Americans are complaining that the Europeans are too appeasing (I would like to think they are keeping busy in the background), while the Europeans are still holding back from saying "well, you elected him, why don't you do something!" I suspect that may soon change. Thinking about trying to do a reverse Hugh Laurie and learn a new accent.
Two regrets about my visit to your town, first you were out of town - your readers would love to buy you a drink, and I didn't buy anything at the bakery.
I did not realise till reading, recently, a detective novel set in "St Rule" that fudge doughnuts are a St Andrews thing.
Sorry; that was me. I long for the simpler days of always being logged in.
Thank you for the reminder of the Years poem. Sadly I fear the second stanza also has current relevance.
Yeats.
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