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Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-04-18 07:48:59 - Graham Ellis

I remember a beautiful sunset that went on and on. Seated on the back of a narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal, this beautiful red light in the sky at dusk. Ah ... but as time passed and it didn't fade, we realised that it was the lights of Milton Keynes over the brow of the hill.

I've just returned from Breakfast at "The Cadger's Brae" on the outskirts of Falkirk. A grey day, close to rain but not really raining and a colourless sky with just a few wisps of grey that are changing to white. Then I realised that the white's moving rather faster than cloud and come to realise that I'm seeing steam from the coolers at Grangemouth oil refinery.