Flights of the butterfly

  • Valves for Dummies

    Recently there has been a bad outbreak of waterborne disease in South West England. As usual, the water company is wringing its hands and bleeding all over the carpet in anguish. It turns out it wasn’t their fault at all. An “air valve” failed to open and so the water was not dosed with the…

  • MERCENARY RIVER

    Just finished  a book, “The Mercenary River” by Nick Higham. It’s a hard read, but worth the effort. Hard, because It has to be. It covers four hundred years of history and does it in detail. Necessary detail to understand what happened and its implications. I am not going to precis, summarise or extract from…