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Scotland Day 1: Newton Abbot to Rosyth – a 481-mile drive
Day 1: Essentially a 9-hour drive from Newton Abbot to Rosyth, a small town with no pubs and nowhere to get hot food. Or so it would seem.
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Newton Abbot 1990: the Great Storm takes down the biggest tree in Courtenay Park, whilst demolition takes down shops and other buildings opposite the (old) bus station
Nature brought down the great tree in Courtenay Park but it was the ingenuity of man that demolished houses and shops opposite the bus station.
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Birds in a Barbed Bush: how can delicate birds like robins be drawn to a razor-sharp mahonia?
I went to war with this mahonia once, and I think I won. I suffered injuries but at least my car suffered scratches no more. Birds live in it, which presents a mystery: why would they do such an apparently reckless thing? It would be like me seeking comfort in a barbed wire dressing gown.
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Unhinged in time: clocks go ‘back’ and I can’t get my head around it.
I exist in two time zones at once. Apparently. Am I some kind of weird quantum entity? Only my cappuccino knows…
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Why is fog so quiet? And where does it go when its done..?
Can we ever know the moment when fog ceases to be fog? Of course not. Fog is a bit like life in that respect.
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Homes to Survive In
The weather I am experiencing in south west England is thankfully considerably more comfortable than is being experienced in parts of the north west seaboard of North America. We knew 25 years ago – and indeed earlier – that dramatic events like this would occur more frequently and more frighteningly right through the 21st century.…
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Colin Anderson 