With a thrill of excitement yesterday I watched my very own video on YouTube.
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Jasmine has a red sports car
Sometimes I just want to get out, away from computer and books, folders and papers. Where we go (husband is usually dragged along) doesn’t much matter, as long as there is something of interest to photograph.
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Seaweed — another strand
Thank you to Dina for sending me a link to a video on mechanical seaweed harvesting off the west coast of Norway and the damage that is causing to the seabed. Whilst watching it I noticed this video which gives information on seaweeds and explains what they are presently used for.
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Weed wealth — from the sea
Lunch today had a new flavour, though it was difficult to pin down. A taste of the sea was suggested, but I didn’t get it. All that was reaching my taste buds was nutty homemade bread. The meat with it was good, too, as was the mixed salad.
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As changeable as…
I live in a country with a climate described as temperate, but which can at times include the weather of all four seasons (plus a few more) within one day. The sun comes out, the temperature rises; the rain comes on, the temperature plummets. And that’s without the possibility of your exposed flesh being stung by hail, as if a thousand wasps were wreaking vengeance on you. Or perhaps a sudden and unseasonable snow shower chills you to the bone on a day you thought there was no risk of even a light spring shower.
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We all tended to pong
When young, I spent most of my holidays on the west coast of Scotland — in a place only thirty or so miles from where I stayed. Those of us who stayed in and around Glasgow were lucky to be within an hour or less of the little villages and towns on the coast of the Clyde estuary. A century previously intrepid adventurers had ‘discovered’ this playground on their doorstep. These were the West of Scotland merchants, men who had accumulated enormous fortunes from coal and iron, shipbuilding and trading, thread manufacture and heavy engineering.
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