Quail sound.

The wife of the church elder stops us to let us know that she has a pair of quail nesting in her garden. Quail are apparently unusual birds to find here. She makes a noise not unlike a mobile phone to let us know what they sound like. ' How marvellous ' says 'The Font' to break the slightly embarrassed silence when this strange trilling noise stops :https://www.british-birdsongs.uk/quail/  

By the zebra crossing two new pieces of street furniture. Alongside a defibrillator an ' Emergency Bleed control kit' has been installed on the wall of the Nationwide Building Society. This proves to be a modern take on what you might call a bandage dispenser. You phone an emergency number and the operator gives you a code to open the door.  What will they think of next ? This is the first time I've ever seen an 'Emergency Bleed control kit' dispenser. How did we manage without them ?

A life sized sculpture of a golfer in the window of the antique shop next door to the nail bar. I'll wager it'll be boxed up and shipped back to the States by the end of the summer. Who knows it might even be carried back in the belly of a wealthy golfers Gulfstream to grace the entry of a Bel Air mansion.

Gull chicks with their fluffy grey feathers appearing on pavements everywhere. We watch, hearts in mouth, as they wander into the path of oncoming traffic. They are , in their own noisy way, beautiful. 

Not only the goldfinches who are having a bumper year. The rabbits are also much in evidence on the grass sward down by the harbour.

The worlds biggest annual bonfire :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nrKD3rZjgY  You'd think the local teenagers would light it from the base not the top.

A different world :https://theconversation.com/how-did-it-feel-to-be-an-american-colonist-in-1776-probably-itchy-achy-and-slightly-nauseated-277153

The importance of education :https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/nearly-half-of-americans-dont-know-what-america-250-is-celebrating-poll/

This heard at midnight. You know you've been in Scotland :https://youtu.be/OPMYNk_wy5U