The Thrills of UK TV

I was flicking through the early evening TV options the other evening and what should I find but live coverage of lambing from somewhere in England. This was apparently part of a series over a number of days. Compulsive viewing or what?

Drought!

It seems like all I ever blog about these days is the weather... but it has been an interesting winter. After the prolonged cold snap the overriding weather pattern has been settled, dry and cold at night, other than one spell of 3 days at the end of February where blizzards cut Inverness off virtually completely. And by dry I mean really dry, un-Scottish no rain at all dry. In fact so dry that fishermen claim that Loch Ness is lower than they've ever seen it. The River Ness that is fed from the loch has been getting noticeably lower each day as I walk to work with more rocks surfacing.

We spent the weekend at New Lanark on the River Clyde and the river there was also incredibly low (I was able to cross at two points without any danger of getting wet feet). Of course it could not last and the rain poured down on most of the northern half of our journey home, and much of the night. The River Ness has plenty of water now.