Up at first light to talk to the Manhattanites. A former Prime Minister leaves parliament in the UK and in the US a former President has been indicted for keeping nuclear targeting secrets in his shower.
Down at the building site that's known as the ' last wee house before Denmark ' the garden is in full bloom. I'd like to think this is due to skill but can entirely be put down to the lupins having self seeded - wildly. They seem to have crowded out the weeds.
On the coast it's warm and sunny. Here in town the mercury is struggling to get into the mid -teens.
The bacon roll cafe owners continue their task of bringing flowers to the visiting masses. All the outside tables have a vase of carnations on them. The cafe owners seem to be opening earlier now to catch the incoming golfing crowd. Yesterday, for some reason the town was inundated with middle aged French folk on guided tours. There were hundreds and hundreds of them strung out along the cliff top walks - the attentive at the front close to their guides and the bored at the back wondering how anywhere could be so cold in the summer. The French were almost uniformly dressed in black. This was something we noted when we lived there and is even more evident here. By contrast unscientific observation would indicate that Australians, Spanish, Italians, Australians, Norwegians and Brits ( in that order ) are proponents of primary colours. Beyond a certain age all nationalities dress in beige.
At six am the dog bowl outside the ice cream shop is full of water.
Down by the harbour four ladies are rowing a boat under the instructions of a gentleman sitting in the stern . He's shouting out instructions and waving. They have come in from the sea, skirted the pier wall and are now heading towards the lock gates. The boat is pursuing a non-linear course.
A small mountain of freshly made lobster creels outside the harbour cafe.
On the quayside more creels are in the process of being made. The fisherman is waiting for the concrete weights to set. Who would think that there was such a thing as a creel production line ? Lobster fishing here, as in Maine, remains a thing.
