In exactly three weeks the farmers two sons and a group of their mates head off to the US for the World Cup. The younger boy finished his bac exams yesterday. He now has to wait three whole weeks for the departure date. The farmers wife is steeling herself for the fact that there will only be one topic of conversation at the dinner table for the rest of this month. Three weeks can pass by very slowly when you're seventeen ... or possibly even more slowly if you're the mother of a seventeen year old football fan. The church elder stops to tell us he's seen half a dozen yellowhammers down by the heron pond. This year they are, sadly, on the red list.
The election results were as expected and the 'grim drubbing' duly took place. On the news the 'grim drubbing' has transmuted into a 'brutal drubbing'.The Liberal candidate in these rural and staunchly unionist parts doubled his majority despite his support for expanding a caravan park onto the towns green belt.
'The Font' observes that on our recent trip to China the coffee was uniformly good. Not once were we served a bad cup. The same cannot be said about Scotland. At the trendy cafe we are served two cups of something that manages to be acrid and palate searingly astringent in equal measure. The students, who start exams today, seem happy with this caffeine laden assault on their senses. After three sips we quietly leave.
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Roman glassware :https://thedebrief.org/this-ancient-roman-artifacts-weird-properties-point-to-evidence-of-1600-year-old-nanotechnology-scientists-say/
That lightbulb moment :https://x.com/PplRegretting/status/2052708732417798262
Megaregions :https://x.com/jjohnpotter/status/2052600623762375044
It's never too late to release an album :https://x.com/historyrock_/status/2052715005540184449
10 comments:
Not a bad price increase on the strawberries, I hope the tomatoes are good - it is a little early in the season for flavor.
Interesting about the Lycurgus cup but somewhat arrogant to assume the makers only acieved the effect by accident. Just because we don't have the original accident doesn't mean the cup's creators hadn't employed knowledge already acquired and developed (in items that were discarded or no longer exist) to achieve their masterpiece.
Hari Om
Lots of tasty things to entertain us today... although I may hold fire on the porridge with the apothecarial concoction... YAM xx
Oops. Your last two links are the same. I will make a guess that the album is from The Rolling Stones.
Thank you for the alert to the Jackie Morris and Robert MacFarlane book; their collaborations have always been excellent. I hope the apothecary shop is surprisingly successful.
The menu at the trendy cafe lèves me cold. On the other hand, Athens tomatoes are lovely. I hope the Farmer’s sons aren’t disappointed!
JoAnn in Maryland
Hi. Thank you. I've corrected it. Put the mistake down to writing first thing in the morning !
I also hope the farmer's sons have a great time at the World Cup. Thinking about them is helping me to restrain my cynicism about the whole enterprise. I read yesterday that FIFA, selling directly, is asking $32,000 per ticket for the final. When the World Cup was hosted by Japan and Korea in 2002, I bought my husband a ticket package for his birthday that included tickets to both Japan's first game and the final match (Brazil vs. Germany as things turned out)and we also received a bento meal, a raincoat and various other paraphernalia. I have to this day never told my husband what I spent for this, but now I can say that I am very proud of the bargain I received.
If you can access the BBC i-Player it's worth watching Twenty Twenty Six which is a very dry ( and underappreciated ) comedic takeoff of the organization of the tournament.
Unfortunately BBC i player is not available in Canada.
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