When I rest my skull on my pillow tonight I’m fairly certain that the organ inside it will have been significantly rewired. Whether physically or only metaphorically I’m not sure, but let’s just say that today was one of those days that really alter your brain. As I write, jammed neural trunk roads are being [...]
“Nuclear power? To most people, it’s witchcraft” (Chris Patten)
To describe nuclear power as clean might seem perverse, given that some of the waste produced is so dangerous that there is no containment material that won’t be destroyed by it, and that it remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years.
But last week the government finally [...]
On January 7th the 200-metre-long tunnel boring machine called Eliza Jane broke through the side of a mountain in Scotland after sixteen months of grinding. The resulting five mile tunnel will take water from a reservoir up on the Monadhliath plateau down to Loch Ness, via an underground cavern housing a hydro-electric power station. It’s [...]
I drew this yesterday, from a photograph I took a couple of Sundays ago when we were walking Oscar, our new canine honorary nephew – but more of him later. The picture shows Ossian’s Hall, viewed from one side of the Rumbling Bridge, which spans the River Braan in a woodland estate called the Hermitage, [...]
