The last few days have had glorious weather and I have been swimming in (not very) cold water a few times. It’s just the thing to make you feel really full of life.
The sea, the sea …
Category: Life
Megaliths at 50
It’s 50 years since a group of undergraduates from the Cambridge University Astronomical Society had a holiday surveying megalithic sites in Argyll to investigate possible astronomical alignments. It was a lot of fun, and we even wrote it up and the results were published in a paper in Nature 253, 431‑433 (1975) which was probably something of an achievement at the time, though I’m not sure that we realised how much!
We had a great time meeting up and revisiting old haunts in the area.
Trinity Annual Gathering
Posting
After a period of rather sporadic posts on here, I am finally (I think) in a fit state of mind to post a bit more stuff, and catch up with some of the things that might have been posted at the time. The last few years have been hard for many people, and though physically I have been fine, the effect of lockdowns and the abysmal behaviour of many governments in particular depressed me greatly. Let’s hope that people are never daft enough to let it happen again.
Maybe spring hasn’t sprung yet …
Spring is sprung
Newcastle visit
Celtic Connections live again
Edinburgh in December
I was on the way to the Lothians Radio Society Christmas curry. Here are the lights of the Princes Street fair, together with part of Waverley Station. I don’t appreciate the sights of Edinburgh enough!
That time of year again …
Posts have been sparse this year. I am really pleased with my telescope but haven’t yet taken any more photos that I consider to be worth posting about. Most communication is directly with friends and family, which is definitely what I prefer; I have pretty well had enough of social media. I’m looking forward to a peaceful festive season and hoping for a better New Year for everyone.