Sunday morning overtime charged at triple or quadruple rates ?

The first television crews are spotted at the village golf course. The Dunhill  tournament starts on Thursday and every hotel within a fifty mile radius is fast filling up :https://www.alfreddunhilllinks.com/

The bakers window has golf themed biscuits and golf themed cupcakes. They will fly off the shelves.

There are some expensive apartments that overlook the 18th tee on the Old Course. This morning a group of men in orange dayglo jackets are working on a displaced window on the top floor. Two men are abseiling down from the roof while a third shouts orders. This much excitement is unusual on a Sunday morning. In fact this much excitement is unusual any day of the week. The pavement outside has been roped off with stripey orange and white tape in case of falling debris. This is a very Scottish health and safety feature. Sunday morning overtime must entail triple hourly rates. 

Diesel now at £1.99 a litre. The farmer has been complaining about the price since May. Then it was £0.50 a litre cheaper. I'll wager it'll be north of £2 tomorrow morning.

The farmer and his wife are dropping off their youngest  in Cambridge today. They set off yesterday morning. It's an eight hour drive but they decided to break the journey half way down so they can enjoy a family dinner together. The farmers wife says 'a final family dinner' but quickly corrects herself. I'd wager there will be tears from her and an emotion obscuring ' we've got to get back the roads are busy ' from the farmer. The lad, it goes without saying, will not notice any of this. He has a life to get on with and new friends to make. There will be urban girls he can impress with his knowledge of brassica harvesting. 

The topic of this mornings sermon in chapel is a question we're all asking.

Down by the Royal and Ancient clubhouse visitors are watching the last of the stands being put up. One local dog is keen to talk to an enchanting visitor.

So starts a quiet Sunday in a small town on the North Sea that is preparing for an explosive influx of golfers. The aisles in Marks and Spencers this morning busy with floppy haired young Scandinavian golfers buying sandwiches. When you're 19 and struggling to get on the tournament rankings life is hard. Some players fly in on private jets others count every penny and fly standby on Ryan Air.

Should you eat Sushi on a Monday ? :https://counteroffer.substack.com/p/true-or-false-dont-eat-sushi-on-mondays

Beaches with killer flies. Bostonians will understand this map :https://x.com/jeffisrael25/status/2102934536539746500

Highly superior autobiographical memories :https://www.sciencealert.com/teen-discovered-with-a-memory-more-powerful-than-99-9-of-the-population

Americas best communicator. Little - almost invisible - gestures are important. A fellow Presbyterian in France points out the reassuring ' I know you're petrified but don't worry ' grasp of the elbow of the man in the black track suit at the 1:39:14 mark :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxddPHi56g