The weather is being well behaved. It pours at night but is bright and sunny in the morning. Today is particularly lovely with clouds on the far side of the bay and skies of the purest cerulean blue above us. The radio informs us that some airbase in England ( I forget which one but think it might have been Coningsby ) has had its first rainfall in 62 days.
This perfect beach weather is not what the village youngsters want to see as they head off to school for the first day of term. The sunshine makes the indignity of getting the eight am school bus all the worse. They have an unhappy 'Weather like this should be outlawed' look on their faces. Twas ever thus.
The faces are v. French :https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1q3g6iFluvM
'Hipster' fine dining in SF is now $600 per person :https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/where-to-eat-in-san-francisco
Another of those things I'd never heard about - acoustic ecology :https://aeon.co/essays/worm-munch-matters-the-new-acoustic-ecology-of-the-soil
Are we all sounding the same ? :https://eriksinger.substack.com/p/are-media-and-the-internet-homogenizing
Point #4 says it all :https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report
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Your "remarkable plant" is Phacelia. It's used as a green manure by organic gardeners and now increasingly by farmers. When we were passing your village last summer there were several fields of it along the main road. It's very quick growing and tolerates cold temperatures. It's used to hold nitrogen. Apart from that, it's adored by bees and hoverflies. I have a large patch in my garden this year because I'm conditioning the soil there after a nasty cotoneaster hedge was taken out. It's always full of bees - you can hear the humming as you approach. One year when I grew a very large amount the bees had blue pollen sacs from the blue flowers.
How mad! Almost NZ$1100 per person! That would feed a family for a week here, with good quality meat, fish and vegetables! My husband and I are very comfortably off, but there is no way I’d want to eat at that price. I think I’m turning into a Puritan! 😳
That is a very beautiful sky indeed. We are having a lovely, slightly cooler day here, but everyone is really looking forward to what is expected to be a rainy day tomorrow. All of the discussion around AI is very interesting. I don't use it that much, but my husband does. He never liked using search engines or doing online research, but I think the ease of obtaining answers from AI is very attractive to him. He uses Chat GPT for random questions, and he has found Claude to be very helpful in his work, doing coding that allows him to stretch into new areas. At the moment, he is trying out Deep Seek and finding that, as others say, it is about as good as the US frontrunners. Meanwhile, I am on the fifth and final season of "Person of Interest," which is a pretty scary AI story.
Hari Om
... so is the baguette delivery from Edinburgh, then, to warrant the comparison? And did you go back for one? There was me thinking they were going to be warm from the oven... YAM xx
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