Today I have mainly been sitting around the house feeling sorry for myself. The slight cold I had yesterday afternoon had become a cold sweat and a trembly weakness by the time I got home. I didn't sleep well last night and made up for most of it this afternoon, either side of fielding a call from work about one of the monochromator's more ( Read more... )

Edinburgh, one week before the solstice. 11 at night. The sky over Fife is a pale blue a few degrees above the horizon, and a pale pink closer to it. It's really good being so far North ( Read more... )