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Taken in June...

Quite. If work's so great, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Out for a walk.

Thank you, though it's really a pale imitation of Colin T Gifford's much better railway photography.

It's a 75 year old 2-6-0 Ivatt, entirely coal fired. Photographed leaving Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway.

Taken at work today...

I made it there in the driving rain two months ago...

Tarbat Ness Lighthouse, Portmahomack, tallest lighthouse in mainland Scotland.

It's the Coigach area of Ross & Cromarty, looking south across Loch Lurgainn. Beinn an Eòin on the left and, on the other side of the corrie, Creag Dhubh na Sàile.

Out for a walk yesterday...

You can always tell Yorkshire folk. But you can't tell 'em much...

That's part of it. Another consideration is whether any proposed treatment would adversely affect any other ongoing medical problems and v.v. For instance, the impact of major bowel surgery on someone with significant heart and chest trouble.

Screening over 75s does have some benefits, but the drawbacks are greater than for younger folk so it's less worthwhile. Both the risk and severity of complications from the screening itself increase with age, and these can be severe, including bleeding and perforation of the colon. So current...

In your position, I'd get the Long Range. Two reasons:- 1. The more crucial it is that you use them, the more likely public chargers are to be broken. 2. Winter will decimate your range - as a former North Yorkshire resident whose work frequently took me around the North York Moors, I know...

Crossing the vast Nowhere in Particular that is Caithness, last month. Taken from a special train from Wick to Inverness - 161 miles, the entire length of the Far North LIne, steam hauled throughout.

Can't say I've had problems with CPS's maintainance. OTOH, the CPS smartphone app, which used to be OK, was changed 1-2 years ago and is now the absolute worst piece of software I have ever used for any purpose whatsoever. By a country mile...

Thanks.

In today's piercing sunshine Liathach and Beinn Eighe were looking good (from a viewpoint high above Loch Clair). Another great day out...