Holidays

After tonight's slugwatch shift, I'm on holiday for 2 weeks. Hooray! A week at home, during which the kiddos and I are booked on a SeaFari trip, followed by a week at the organic farm in Kirkcudbright. The SeaFari trip, weather permitting, will get us close up to see seal pups and moo-ing puffins on the islands in the Firth of Forth. The Kirkcudbright week, weather permitting, will allow us to bathe in the radioactive waters of the Solway Firth. I don't know which I'm anticipating more!

Radio Scotland today is reporting that there's been an upsurge in radioactive leaks from Sellafield, which are carried from the Cumbrian coast to the Galloway coast via the gulfstream. If we come back with two heads each, blame the IAEA who are all too concerned with nuclear activities in Iran and North Korea instead of here. Oh, and the earthquake in Japan yesterday that has caused it's largest nuclear power generator to emit high levels of radiation. Why is it, despite indefinite detention or house arrest of suspected terrorists that I don't feel safe yet?