Less and less precise.

Another sign I've turned into my father. I read this Truth Social message and my first reaction is : 1) The King reigns 2) horses have reins and 3) hell rains down. 

The track that leads to the last wee house before Denmark has been churned up by tractors getting out to the fields by the heron pond. The surface is now deeply rutted and getting to be axle breakingly bad. I shall have to ask the farmer if he can do something to smooth it out. We do the last two hundred yards at a spine jarring 4 mph .

A normal workday in Scotland but south of the border it's an English holiday. The beach busy with joggers stretching their legs before getting in their car and heading back down the M6. It's a revision week for the students and many have taken the opportunity to fly out of Edinburgh to somewhere sunny and warm.  For others faced with final exams there is a definite sense of approaching panic. The path  to the library is usually quiet first thing in the morning but is now thronged with ' cramming ' fourth years. Can we really be so close to the end of the semester ?

The cold but sunny weather has brought the first of the wild flowers into sudden and sparkling bloom.

The back of the supermarket receipt asks a question. 'Were we remarkable today ?'  The answer to this is they were more than adequate but not remarkable in the literal sense. A man on the radio says that the British public hate Keir Starmer. This surprises me. Dislike maybe , possibly they're disappointed in him , but hate ? I can't say I hate anyone or certainly not anyone I've met. Language becomes less and less precise and more and more inflated.

Learning Mandarin :https://www.oldnorthwhale.com/p/why-modern-chinese-is-just-english

Philosophical rugby and a fun read. The author could only be French :https://vamoul.substack.com/p/a-pindaric-ode-for-louis-bielle-biarrey

Flamingoes :https://x.com/sanghaviharsh/status/2040640368203669612

You may need to be a Brit to relish this but Canvey Island is a place no one ever admits going to let alone write about :https://benyeoh.substack.com/p/flags-and-flat