Packraft Camp at Whiteness Head – March’s Outdoor Sleep
I’m now at 25 months of sleeping outdoors at least once a month. One might imagine that it would get easier after two years, but I still experience an inbuilt resistance to leaving my warm house and comfortable bed for the dark unknown. Even when my logical mind knows that I am bound for a pleasant […]
A watery future? Sea level will rise by 25 metres, eventually
David Hume wrote in 1777 that “all inferences from experience suppose … that the future will resemble the past”. This is a natural human tendency and a pretty good rule of thumb, but it has its limitations. Take the example of sea level. It has altered very little in the last 6,000 years, the period during […]
Fresh insights into the glaciation of Scotland: Tom Bradwell at the Inverness Field Club
A couple of weeks ago I attended one of the Inverness Field Club‘s winter lectures. Despite having very nearly used up half my biblical allocation, I was the youngest person in the audience by a considerable margin. I had been coaxed into this gathering of the grey-haired, this amalgamation of the aged, this exhibition of the elderly, […]