Pile On the Power

That was bit of a shock to the system heading home tonight.

After the clocks going back yesterday that's the first I've left work in the dark this year. Still, I had some time to waste before picking up Euan from gymnastics, so I stopped off along the road from the Clackmannanshire Bridge near Kincardine to grab the mad drivers bombing along the road here.

There's an odd split on this road where part of it is single carriageway but traffic in the other direction have two lanes. It then switches halfway along the route so the opposite traffic direction has the two lanes. It never ceases to amaze me how, even though the road's still only national speed limit and you can be sitting at this, cars start to pile up in your rear view mirror as the passing lane approaches and then pile on the power and accelerate to light speed within inches of the road opening up. It always seems to be the wee Nissan Micras or the Renault Clios (with driver on mobile as it was this morning) that seem to want to get to the roundabout 4 seconds quicker than you.

The second reason for this picture tonight is to illustrate the announcement that it's now looking likely the Scottish government is going to give the go-ahead to a huge replacement powerline that stretches from around this area all the way north to Invernesshire. This will include 600 pylons up to 200ft in height and will cut through some of our world famous Scottish scenery. I can appreciate the need for the renewable energy that this new line will provide, but from a purely selfish blip point of view (plus the 18,000 objections registered) it's bloody well hard enough to get a good shot in around here without a pylon being in there also.

Adobe really need to include a 'remove pylon' tool in the next version of Photoshop, it looks like we'll all be needing that a lot.