Loaded, Locked, and ready to sail

12C with sunny sunshine all day. Moderate NNW/NW breeze.

Fergus and I went for our walk after lunch. We went round to the harbour and along Hall Street and the shore side of the park and Kilkerran road. We turned at Glenramskill house and came back the same way then along the street side of the park and came home through town passing the town hall and the bookshop (open).

More wind turbine tower sections arrived at the new quay last night and Zea Servant is fully loaded, the cranes are locked down, and she is ready to sail. The big heavy lift lorries were lined up at the head of the new quay when Fergus and I went past.

On the Clip while walking:
Podcast of BBC radio 3's The Verb podcast with Ian McMillan (poet, author, playwright, and broadcaster):
America. Radio 3's weekly exploration of language and literature. Ian McMillan's guests were Tracy K Smith, Terrance Hayes and Sarah Churchwell.

Podcast of BBC radio 4's Word of Mouth, with the excellent Michael Rosen in the chair:
The First Language. There are thousands of languages today - is it possible to trace them back to a single ancestor? Michael Rosen, linguist Dr Laura Wright, and guests investigated our earliest languages.

Afternoon music ... BBC Radio Scotland.

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