I must confess to being not only a keen amateur photographer, but also a complete photography geek, interested as much in the technology as the final printed image.
When we think of the sentimental legacies we’ll leave our children, no longer will it be boxes of family photographs, handwritten diaries and our much loved CD collection.
For those of you fortunate enough to have a plot of your own, no matter the size, the great outdoors is but a few steps away, so when circumstances forbid a longer expedition you can be in the open air within seconds.
A time when last year's stock of stored vegetables is finished and new crops haven't come on stream, the hungry gap provides few pickings from the garden.
Edinburgh has a lot to offer cyclists, with its network of car-free paths on former railway lines providing easy riding from the suburbs into the city centre.
I must confess to being not only a keen amateur photographer, but also a complete photography geek, interested as much in the technology as the final printed image.
When we think of the sentimental legacies we’ll leave our children, no longer will it be boxes of family photographs, handwritten diaries and our much loved CD collection.
My obsession with weather monitoring started a decade ago when I moved out of the city and took an interest in grown-up concerns such as when the plants needed watered or when the pipes in the garage were likely to freeze.
In 1996 – before the advent of movie downloads, e-book readers or Apple's iTunes – Microsoft's Bill Gates made an astute observation: "Content is king: it's where I expect much of the real money will be made on the internet."
