Pterodactyls on the altar
Nov. 30th, 2010 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesAgainst the backdrop of another top-five-ish* hottest year ever, with a heaving Atlantic hurricane season (intense and also weird), polar ice continuing on its death spiral and everything going exactly to hell just as the boffins (not the cranks) predict -- I'm being gnawed by good solid green guilt over driving up to Scotland.
Not the trip**, just the mode. It would have been greener and cheaper and less hard work to do it any other way than driving up solo. Lots of fuel. Lots of CO2. Lots of pterodactyls fermented down to slurry and simmered for a gajillion years for my pleasure. Lesson learned, and unless necessity tips my hand (in its many guises, mostly the "sudden dash" and "shed full of gear" variety), I'll stick to the train for the long haul from now on.
Next time I head up there, it could be en route to John O'Groats, after all. That one will be on a bike.
* It's not quite done yet and different groups have different methods of calculating it. If you had a cold summer, remember that Russia didn't. If you think this current snow disproves global warming, roll your copy of the Express up tightly and jam it up your arse, you cretin. Words are wasted on you.
** Whee! Vibram footprints in the snow! And beer and jelly and rabbids and oh yeah, good peeps. :)
Not the trip**, just the mode. It would have been greener and cheaper and less hard work to do it any other way than driving up solo. Lots of fuel. Lots of CO2. Lots of pterodactyls fermented down to slurry and simmered for a gajillion years for my pleasure. Lesson learned, and unless necessity tips my hand (in its many guises, mostly the "sudden dash" and "shed full of gear" variety), I'll stick to the train for the long haul from now on.
Next time I head up there, it could be en route to John O'Groats, after all. That one will be on a bike.
* It's not quite done yet and different groups have different methods of calculating it. If you had a cold summer, remember that Russia didn't. If you think this current snow disproves global warming, roll your copy of the Express up tightly and jam it up your arse, you cretin. Words are wasted on you.
** Whee! Vibram footprints in the snow! And beer and jelly and rabbids and oh yeah, good peeps. :)
