Not a dry stane dyke but love the flowers that make their way through the cracks and crevices in stone walls along the roads.
Morning sunny. Showers in the afternoon. Have to admit that a rainy afternoon provides more info than it did in the days before WiFi.
Have just learned that in 2022 Canada extended copyright from fifty years after the death of the author/artist to seventy years, basically in order to harmonise with the US. So novels that might have been freely copied as of January first this year will have to wait until 2043. Will not have reached my hundredth birthday by then but 75th will be a pretty distant memory. Not that we’re short of books but it was always a pleasure seeing a new lot hit copyright freedom day.
And, in happier vein, a group member online has advice for those wishing to watch YouTube without being interrupted by advertisements. You can choose Albania as your VPN location as YouTube advertising is illegal there and will not be shown. Works for YouTube. No idea re other sources.
Test the theory by watching an old episode of the Scottish sitcom Still Game. No intrusive advertisements. Show as funny as ever. With added humour from the subtitles. It’s meant, one supposes, to allow non Scots to understand the Glaswegian accent but the AI subtitle generator hasn’t been well primed and its guesses are often as funny as the dialogue is.
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