Life in Newburgh on Ythan

By Talpa

A mouldy lime and tilting at windmills

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Robert Browning. English poet, 1812-1889.

This lime has been quietly mouldering away, unnoticed, in the fruit bowl. It is probably past its best now! 

Extra. Windmills in Aberdeen Bay. The scheme of 11 windmills generates 75% of Aberdeen's domestic electricity consumption
That awfully nice man, Donald Trump, vehemently opposed the construction of the wind farm, unsuccessfully taking legal action against it on three separate occasions, including at the Supreme Court.

The reason that The Donald  was against the development was that he thought that it would spoil the view from his golf course, the Trump International Links, which he opened in 2012. The supreme irony is that in building his golf course he trashed a large area of pristine and beautiful sand dunes which had been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). 

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