Incident close to home, Fallout, Spheres

 Hello subscribers!

Another week of the new year has passed. Lockdown continues here, so life is pretty boring, hence nothing much to report … except that the day before yesterday there were suddenly lots of police sirens very close to us. So something was going on. We couldn’t see anything at the time, but have meanwhile found out online that what had happened was that a ceiling collapsed in a nearby building – taking two people living on the first floor with it! They suffered fractured legs but survived. Apparently rebuilding work was under way on the ground floor, which will have had something to do with this incident, but how exactly it happened I don’t know. Anyway, a bit of dark very close to home yesterday.

Over the ten days since 6 January I have been drawn into reading a lot about the fallout from the storming of the Capitol in Washington DC, all the various angles, fears of further violence and so on … but since this is not a political current affairs blog, I won’t go into details here.

On the blog, one new post went up last Tuesday, namely the promised one on Dark Tourism & Spheres, one of the two winners of our latest theme poll. The other one, Dark Tourism & Lakes, will come tomorrow or the day after. The spheres ranged from works of art, monuments, spherical nuclear reactor buildings (as in the photo above, from Dounreay, Scotland), plutonium spheres in nuclear weapons, radomes and space capsules to even the coronavirus. I hope you enjoyed, or will enjoy, that unusual blog theme.

That’s basically all I have to say this time around.

Best wishes

Peter