Just a short section in St Neots. The first 750m is fine, with the current; coming back against the current is much slower. Good fun though. I've seen people wild swimming in St Ives before. And… (View Post)

Nuclear is unreliably intermittent... "The outages of four reactors - two at Heysham and two in Hartlepool - were unplanned, prompted by a part failure in the boiler pipework at Heysham 1 in Lan… (View Post)

It is beautiful here in south Cambridgeshire. I went out for a pre-dawn walk, and unusually encountered no wildlife, though I was not on my usual route. I'm going for a long swim in the pool; I&… (View Post)

I did a 44km bike ride on Sunday, and forgot my glasses. I did not get a single fly in my eye. This morning I did a 24km ride with my sunglasses on, and I got two insects in my eye within the first k… (View Post)

Blackouts have been caused in the past when *one* large 'conventional' power plant has gone off, causing cascade failures. The robust-yet-fragile concept of networks. And as ever, be carefu… (View Post)