Simply random stuff

[madscot]

Yep. Been there. The weather seems ideal for distilling alcohol. And raising sheep.

What do you call a sheep tied to a lampost in the north of Scotland?
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A leisure centre

 

[H.A.L.]

Just about, it was the hottest & driest summer for years, I finished my exams, got a summer job in a warehouse so didn't see much of it (apart from the Rolling Stones/Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Knebworth Festival). Then went to University in Wales in October where it rained non-stop for months, and the water was cut-off in the student house for about 12hrs each day due to the water shortage!

I was a US foreign student at Edinburgh Uni in '82 (two years after seeing my US family last, as I didn't fly home -- the uni had a thing about ALWAYS being there as a grad student). Had a blast! I remember a day when it turned 72F in the afternoon. The shirtless young local males that day destroyed part of my vision with the brightness. Otherwise, yes, autumn at best, lol!

 

[mandrix]

On my senior trip (sic)....I met a lot of interesting people and grew to appreciate the cultures. Never returned but did travel the EU, and made it to Crete. I am not well to do and do not travel the world, but I have fond memories of many peoples and cultures.
When all the BS is aside, people are people. A lunch at a run down looking place on the outskirts of Paris with the only hangover remedy that worked ,and conversation with the old man that ran the place, Bangkok sitting at the river marketplace, watching in fascination with a kratom spiced tea, Guam with all the weird snakes...I mean people, this world is a treasure.
Traveling as a young man was an eye opening experience for this old Southern boy.
But these days I stay in my woods where I love to be.