flakes of nuisance » weather http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:49:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Up in the Peaks for a grand day out and you meet Big Heads from Stoke Newingtonhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/05/24/up-in-the-peaks-for-a-grand-day-out-and-you-meet-big-heads-from-stoke-newington/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/05/24/up-in-the-peaks-for-a-grand-day-out-and-you-meet-big-heads-from-stoke-newington/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 11:18:30 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6595

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A History of the Sky: 126 Days from Ken Murphy on Vimeo.

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If every windfarm company pledged 10% of its income to the local community, many more would be approved

Listening to the radio yesterday, I remembered something I’ve been meaning to get off my chest. The PM programme carried a report from Westray in the Orkney islands, where a 900kW wind turbine was approved without a single planning objection (BBC News of Ten has more). Given that it stands 67m high on a mostly flat island, how did this happen?

It’s simple: the turbine is owned by the residents. They raised £1.5m in loans and grants. Once the bank has [

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Rime is a type of white-coloured ice that forms when water droplets from fog or low-lying clouds freeze during temperatures between -7 and -2C.

As cold as it looked. The ice was at least 100 – 200mm thick over the entire building.

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