We went in to the Christmas market today so that Marwyn could get her annual fill of bratwurst. Good weather, fortunately.
Continue readingChristmas Market 2018
Advent candles
Harps of Gold 2018
First rehearsal today for the Harps of Gold concert – book early to get a ticket!
An acticity of the Edinburgh branch of the Clarsach Society.
Fiddle Festival 2018
Another great Scots Fiddle Festival. We went to all three concerts, every one was excellent.
The Friday evening concert started with Ryan Young and Jenn Butterworth. Simply fabulous. We have seen Ryan before as a competitor for young traditional musician of the year at Celtic Connections – sadly he didn’t win either – but he’s a really great fiddler.
Fusion energy in 5 years?
Hmmmm …. fusion energy appears to be getting closer than I had thought. Let’s see how this goes. Article on BBC news website.
Image from Tokamak Energy.
‘Oumuamua as a bit of alien space hardware
image from https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1737/
Today I came across something on the web that’s actually interesting. It’s on the spaceweather.com website that I usually visit daily – I’ve linked to today’s archive so it can be found again. It’s about ‘Oumuamua.
The pretty pictures are of course artwork, and I’ve linked the one above to the BBC article it came from, as part of the story about this object. The latest paper suggests that the properties of this object are compatible with it being a piece of alien hardware – which is utterly fascinating!
Droid running over obstacles !
Last bit of summer?
A glorious day today, I had time for a quick Edinburgh circuit by bike after we had been shopping. I took the photo of Porty beach after I had passed the crowds.
New tune
When I was recording the Brudmarsch efter Axel Inge after Halsway, a tune came to me. I finally got round to recording it.
Busking at a wedding
The band played at a wedding this evening in Borthwick Castle – not our usual type of venue (church halls, community centres …)! It was great fun as ever, the bride and groom were lovely (he played the pipes too!).