Serener Skies

So this year's choice of holiday destination was Scotland, and, more specifically, the Isle of Skye. There were numerous reasons for this choice and some of them were practical. With the ongoing shenanigans in the Middle East, where, rather bizarrely, belligerent powers seem to declare ceasefires and carry on shooting and bombing people regardless, oil prices are up and down like the Assyrian Empire (to borrow an old Monty Python line) making holidays abroad less than economi

It’s that time of year again. The Summer Bank Holiday has passed, September is with us and the kids will shortly be back at school. As if on cue, the temperature across the UK has dropped from the freakish highs we had last weekend to something much more typical for the time of year. One might almost say that autumn is in the air. There is that sense of the passing of another summer, the beginning of that descent towards the turn of the year’s wheel, as the days start to shor