One in five

A super brief blog this morning. All went well with the shingles shot .... initially .... but by mid afternoon the aches and tiredness couldn't be ignored.  I tried watching a mindless Netflix series about Los Angeles policemen but even a regular dose of pyrotechnics and an alarming number of murders per episode couldn't keep me awake. It is a long, long time since I've slept for sixteen hours without a break. A quick reading of the vaccines information leaflet warns that 'extreme tiredness and aching limbs' are a very common side effect impacting more than 'one in five'.

This weeks storms have torn the fishermens lobster creels and buoys from their moorings. The village dog walkers have piled them up on the foreshore in readiness for someone to come and retrieve them

The first tour group of the year spotted. From their dress style we think they must be Spanish. What must the poor things be thinking ? At eight am on a damp January morning the town isn't exactly humming.

Wheelie bags with Edinburgh airline luggage tags a sure sign of the returning student.  This one spotted outside Tesco is a late arrival.

We stop to admire the flowers in the window of the house that always has a table covered in essays waiting to be read and marked. 

The 1950's :https://www.coolidgereview.com/articles/1950s-mirage-cochrane

Correctives:https://x.com/CJFerguson1111/status/2015859422417870858

Brave young woman to go here :https://x.com/sophfuji/status/2015903225715818942?s=20

Life as an Uber driver :https://stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey-from-foreign-correspondent

An insight into gratuitous insults :https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-canada-became-an-enemy