A mid-winter’s country hike
“Let’s see how far we can walk before it gets dark today” I said to Richard Colston when, on one Sunday in early January 1960, we two Boy Scout patrol leaders went out into the Essex countryside for an exploratory...Read More →
New Lives for an Old Rod
“You need a new fly rod!” Sandy told me bluntly. I lived in Thurso in northern Scotland, fifty years ago, and used an old fly rod, inherited from my grandfather to fish for salmon on the River Thurso. The Thurso...Read More →
Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera delivers excellent productions locally in North East Scotland throughout the year, as well as throughout Scotland, broadly. Some of these are open-air, “pop-up” productions, delivered from a mobile, truck-mounted trailer stage, complete with musicians, in local parks and...Read More →
Newsletter from Pitmedden
I’m slowly but surely organising my new home in Pitrmedden, unpacking all the cardboard boxes still piled high in the garage and ordering things I need from Ebay only to find that I already have what I need as I...Read More →
Upsurge in international investment in Automation Engineering
A new article in the “Business” section of the Economist magazine of January 16th, 2021 focuses on the increased levels of international investment in control systems and automation. This is spurred on by Covid-19 and its effects on industrial manpower...Read More →