I listened to a Radio 4 programme on the Great Man-Made River project in Libya. For the moment at least, you can listen to it here. It’s the mother of all water engineering projects, and as I’ve said before in this blog, I have an odd fascination with this kind of thing. Apart from anything [...]
Just as the starlings are becoming noticeably active, at the peak of their breeding season, is a good time for this post. In fact, I can hear them right now as I write this.
These thoughts have been waiting in the wings now for a long time, since about a year ago, when I became fully [...]
Laura and I rolled eggs last Sunday for Easter. Any available slope in Holyrood Park was littered with egg remains. I didn’t know it was still so popular. Anyway, I rose to the challenge set by Laura – who does this every year – and painted my egg with great application, but not with food [...]
