A bright and sunny start to the day. Partridges, pheasants and quail happily grubbing away in the freshly ploughed fields . In most places they'd be hunted but out here nobody , excepting the occasional bird watcher, bothers them.
The farmers daughter and her boyfriend return to Oxford today. The seventeen year old son has been tasked with driving them down to the airport. He's finally got round to washing the Range Rover which - under the layers of caked on mud - reveals an anthracite grey paint job. There is a large dent in the rear door where the farmer reversed into some potato crates. The trip to the airport presumably gives the lad more time to pitch for his idea of staying in Jackson Hole while commuting to the Scottish teams matches in Boston and Miami. He told his sister he was thinking of applying to Oxford if his baccalaureate results are good enough but her reaction was of the 'over my dead body' variety.
The ability of one man to command the global news cycle day after day after day is quite remarkable. Has anyone else ever done this with such consistency before ? A commentator on the radio says we've never seen a 'global historical figure' like him since the 1930's. The parallels from that era are left unvoiced. It seems that overnight the British Prime Minister was compared to Neville Chamberlain so perhaps the 30's analogy isn't far fetched.
The shop owners girl friend has painted the ceiling. He's very proud of this.
The shop seems to sell wooden carvings. This is an unusual business model. We wish him well.
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Some post Easter sponges in the bakers . I would buy one but we're off to London tomorrow for an old friends 70th birthday.
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Making instant coffee ain't easy :https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-creation-of-instant-coffee
Candy and age :https://www.the-scientist.com/why-candy-can-become-harder-to-swallow-with-age-74317
Petrol price hikes :https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3349010/pakistan-offers-30-days-free-public-transport-following-40-petrol-hike
An unusual juxtaposition. :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AOaHg3s2Nc
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteHmm... looks like some 'reclaimed' items in that new shop, possibly vintage and antique - and suited to a certain style of decor that could be considered limiting. His girl friend could certainly make a living...
Nail bars might be considered in the same frame as all those Car Hand Wash places that pop up in nearly every town... rather handy if you're in the need of the service, but possibly masking something rather dark... YAM xx
I thought the Neville Chamberlain comment was pretty weird, he doesn't read so I wondered where he heard that. The instant coffee piece was very interesting. We lived in Hoboken, New Jersey the first year we were married and my first year practicing law. There was a Maxwell House instant coffee factory in the neighborhood and whenever I commuted back from Manhattan late at night, the smell of coffee would be everywhere. They must have timed it that way so that people didn't complain. The factory closed long ago, but I still have a photo of the Maxwell House neon sign hanging in the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteChamberlain always get a bad rap. A man of gentle virtues and quiet piety he prepared a nation that was expecting peace to gird for war. The years grace before the start of hostilities bought time to rearm.
DeleteUnhinged, most would agree.
ReplyDeleteI hope the Farmer’s daughter had a fun weekend with the parents and her brothers. No telling what the boyfriend thought.
ReplyDeleteI can’t imagine how the parents on the lawn explained the day to their children.
JoAnn in Maryland
I rather like the chandelier in the new shop.
ReplyDeleteI love that the birds are just part of the landscape and that no one bothers them.
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