One sunny Wednesday afternoon

Still nice and sunny, but discovered a 3 mm sheet of ice in the watering can outside. Overnight low was -2C / 28F, again. A couple of things caught my attention on the newsfeeds that I subscribe to, partially following up stories I mentioned over the last few days.

Opening hours at Stornoway airport will be reduced on a couple of days until April, in addition to three half-hourly breaks for airtraffic control staff. New staff is being trained, but subject to them passing exams, they will not be on stream until the spring. Local politicians have been huffing and puffing, but safety comes first. The rules and regulations in the ATC business are apparently very strict.

A second teenager has died as a result of the collision between a car and a train at Invergordon last Friday. The driver is being treated at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness.

I was quite worried to read on the BBC website that there are apparently no technological barriers to burying nuclear waste underground. In the late 1980s, the UK authority charged with dealing with nuclear waste, Nirex, investigated several sites across the country, two of which are in the Western Isles - the islands of Sandray and Fuday, near Barra, 120 miles south of Lewis.