King Peter attributed his father's, King Alexander's, death to the fact that...he had not worn his steel-mesh bullet-proof shirt.

Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.

It's 2:30 now; let's meet in 15 minutes. Okay, see you at quarter of.

This also is a good time to surf-cast from the beaches for bluefish, spot, grey trout, and other catches.