It’s been a very pleasant day ‘oop North today. A bit brisk temperature wise with a nasty wind, but the sun was shining to create some wonderful scenes.
I had to head down to Cockermouth today, the birthplace of William Wordsworth (and Jennings beer). It’s great to be able to travel to places with a reason – not a tourist.
And it’s even better when you see the sun glimmering off the snow-topped hills and mountains or the Northern Lake District.
A view so nice, I had to stop and take a picture. …

Some months ago, I spoke about the problem of NIMBYism, and encouraged you all to sign a government “e-petition”.
Since then, Downing street have replied, with a predictable answer that basically said “tough”.
Also since then – recently as it happens – news has broken of another attack on a race circuit. By something worse than a NIMBY. A NIMBY with a grudge.

Croft circuit near Darlington is under serious threat after a judge ruled it should pay a local resident £150,000 in compensation for noise nuisance and a subsequent apppeal won’t be …

If you want to have wind power provide the government’s 20% renewable energy, you’ll have to give up Wales to wind turbines.

An area the size of Wales would need to be covered in wind turbines to meet just a sixth of the nation’s daily energy needs, according to a new study that has cast doubt over the Government’s push for wind energy.
Professor David MacKay, a physicist at Cambridge University, said ministers would have to look at other forms of alternative energy, like tidal power, if they were to meet their …

I have a few pet hates. One of them is so-called “NIMBYism” – “Not in my back yard”. People who don’t mind an idea in theory – until it sets up camp near to them.
When it’s objecting to the building of something like wind farms – then at least they’ve got some point. If everyone took that attitude then they’d never be any built. But, at least they’re trying to stop something changing.
What annoys me even more if people who move somewhere – then complain. Church bells are likely to …

There was a feature on my local news, North West Tonight, earlier this week. A woman from Oswaldtwistle had returned from her holidays to find some uninvited lodgers in her loft. Bats.
I was left slightly insulted that this classed as ‘news’. A point made worse due to the fact that only a few nights before I hadn’t been able to get to sleep – due to our resident bats having returning to roost during my holidays and chattering away all night.
For many, the thought of having bats living in proximity …

Climate change is one of those things that no-one* really understands. So much is written about it, on whether or not the ice caps are melting, whether the earth is heating up by a degree each year, whether their is a “scientific consensus” on it or not. And it all just goes right over my head. So I have decided something: I don’t care.
I don’t care if the earth is heating up by one degree or more, or less, or not at all per year.
I don’t care whether or not …