The Significant Otter and me went to the seaside yesterday ... it's not far away. We have a theory that the further away from the sea you live, the less happy people are. I think that us humans find something at that edge that is uplifting and good. We didn't spot any " birds of note" but that didn't matter .. it's the process that matters, not the outcome. I remarked on the fact that Med gulls used to be much more prevalent a few years ago, and also put that into the context of there having been none at all not so long ago. I saw my first ever one on the roof of a Blind Home about 35+ years ago ... people came from miles around to see it. That, of course, was when I was " young" . We ... (well, me actually), went on to grumble about the obsession with "winning" everything. I was very disappointed with those Solheim Cup (?) golfing ladies a week or two ago who told the interviewer that "winning" was the important and only thing" and they would be " gutted" if they lost. Nothing else mattered. So, they don't enjoy golf then ? Unless they win . Brilliant. And it's the same with footy .. rival teams "hating" each other and even resorting to violence. It was Liverpool/Everton when ( and where) I was young. The thing is though, those Liverpool supporters would be mighty irked if all those other teams they "hated" didn't turn up, or went out of business. And this afternoon, when I encountered The King of Bryher at Grumbling Stumps, the very first thing he said to me was ... " What's your List ?" My standard reply to almost all of his questions these days is the universally applicable "I don't care" .... I don't want to get involved in any sort of "Who's best" thing, or " Who's ticked the Bimaculated Tinklearse" or any of that. Then I told him about my " Seaside" theory. And then I went home. And found, serendipitously, this lovely, laconic, lilting, luminous, lazy song ...... I know deep in my heart that you all are very keen to learn the words to that song and sing it to anyone who cares to listen. .... here's your big chance ... Of course, there is a slight suspicion that it's not actually " the seaside" that he's singing about !
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