Berwick Law

An easy-ozy day. The weather was at times wild. Windy. Wet. Showery. Blustery. Grey. Sunny. But mainly windy.

Baked some bread (oat and linseed). Read and replied to some emails. Headed to shops when I took this view from the outskirts of Edinburgh. In the “V” in the line of trees you can just make out Berwick Law at North Berwick some 23 miles away. It is strange to think that less than a year ago I was driving there frequently to visit my Mum, but have not been there now for nearly 6 months.

Returned home to find that the kettle we bought less than a year ago had packed in. Not what you’d expect from a Bosch. After half an hour on the phone we got a refund (the kettle is no longer available). New one ordered online from Currys. Tried click and collect but the nearest store offering that service seemed to be in Teeside. “Computer says no!”. So we have to wait a few days.

Evening TV was Finding Dory - good fun - and recreating the first lively TV broadcast which was fascinating. I had not been fully aware of the rivalry between spinning disc and electronic systems; that most of the Baird broadcast was not live but transformed from film with a 54 second delay ; and that John Logie Baird was neither involved in the broadcast on 2 November 1936 nor that his method of transmission ( the spinning disc with 240 lines ) was rejected so early on in favour of the electronic (405 lines) system. Nor indeed that the first TV sets owned by the lookers-in, as viewers were known, had to be able to switch between the rival systems. Even Betamax and VHS never required that.