I’ve just been giving my space site a review and a face-lift in preparation for a new season of astronomy courses and I see that it is now ten years old. So the old Spacepod has been exploring space for my students and others for a whole decade! Now, fitted with an alien interstellar drive, I hope that it will extend its reach across the galaxy. Watch for improvements there over the next few months.
Until then, congratulations, pod people.
Well, that’s the UK General Election over for another few months. We might have some sort of government by the end of next week and, while I wait, I thought I’d spruce up the site. It hasn’t snowed for a few days now and so I think I can assume it may be Spring. This is a nice chance to play with my new copy of Carrara 7 which made the pretty blossoming tree at the head of the page.
And here’s a lovely view of neolithic barrow, Cairnpapple Hill, as it caught the spring sunshine last Saturday.
Unusually, Scotland is still receiving fresh snow, more than two weeks into this cold weather. Looks like most of the country’s councils have now run out of road salt and we’re in for a deep freeze this year. Schools haven’t gone back after the Christmas holiday and Dumfries and Galloway’s children can enjoy uninterrupted sledging. Let’s hope the gas supply holds out.
Fresh snow fell on Christmas night.
Well, not only did the snow hang around until Christmas Day, but we also had a fresh fall that evening. The Scottish bookies won’t be happy, but there are a lot of happy kids who got to go sledging on Christmas Day. The phrase “living memory” comes to mind when trying to think of Dumfries white Christmases. We’ve been very lucky with this one and did our best to make the most of it. There’s a little bit of a thaw on now but we’re expecting more snow to follow. So the snowy theme on this site is likely to continue for a while yet.