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Well, I’m back, as Sam the Hobbit says at the end of The Lord of Rings; but whereas he’d just seen the last of the elves and wizards of Middle Earth sail away to the Undying Lands, I was at a conference in Stockholm, considering issues around archiving records of nuclear waste. And I […] 
The wind has a sharp edge that wasn’t there a fortnight ago; the leaves are falling from the trees, the lawn glistens with morning dew, and the skies are filled with migrating birds. Autumn has come to Caithness. This time of year always makes me wonder what it must have been like in Victorian […] 
So that was summer. Lord, it’s been hot: last week Wick experienced its highest temperature in 68 years. Granted, that was only 25.2c (or 77.4 degrees in old money), but even so it was hot for us. Things were getting serious: I even considered taking off my pullover at one point, but then remembered […] 
“Summer breeze, makes me feel fine/ Blowing through the jasmine of my mind,” as the Isley Brothers optimistically sang during the long, hot summer of 1974. And I thought of those words, not without some bitterness, as I watched the gale-lashed rain spatter the window and shake the doors last weekend. I’d taken a […] 
Let’s start with the good news, and really it’s as good as good can be: the hospital consultant confirmed that I don’t have oesophageal cancer after all (or cancer of the lymph nodes, or thyroid, or any other place known to medical science they’d thought I might have it) and she doesn’t want to […] |
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