No pictures

It is clear that I am going to be unable to post any pictures at all with this internet connection, so I will abandon any hope of showing off with my knitting and sewing. Drat - I have done some very good stuff lately.

However, I have seen a few interesting things lately, and I will try a few word-pictures.

Nearby is the airfield where the aerobatics team is based. This week a couple of the pilots were out practising: doing an Oaklahoma, as my husband calls it - making lazy circles in the sky. They really were drawing circles, since they were flying through a very light haze of what was probably ice at the altitude, and leaving trails where they had passed. Sort of negative contrails. Every time they passed through a certain bit of the cloud, there was a burst of white on top, looking as though they had a vast snowball dumped on their shoulders. Fascinating.

Driving home through the town, I saw a police car. Well, half a police car to be exact. The near side of the car was white paint with all the standard fluorescent markings, and half of the blue light array on the roof. The off side was plain dark blue. I am at a total loss to explain the possible uses of it! Can anybody explain?

I like to collect "interesting" spellings. I can spot them so well (except when I write them myself). One of the roadside cafes on the way to Yarmouth had a noticeboard out; now that the year has rolled round, their hours are "SUMER OPENING" How very Babylonian. I wonder if they serve the fried bread in a stack shaped like a ziggurat?