Total synthesis always seemed like the sort of science where you know what the answer will be before you get there!

Corvids ?

282! I think I've just got fat fingers.

Privileged to have this close encounter last year. Must have been stunned, as it was sat on the edge of the A82.

There was a petition to change the plural of compass to compi.

Beautiful. A favourite sunset spot of mine too. Every childhood holiday through the 70's.

Love these. A memorable bird of my Devon childhood. Now I've started seeing them again. They're extending their northern range, they've crossed the Highland fault in the last couple of years.

In the UK, we've got "Lord Hereford's Knob". See also Half Man Half Biscuit.

For 30 years I'd considered myself British. But Scotland is really quiet different from England. I think its challenging geography feeds into societal differences and from there into it's very different politics. Westminster does not represent Scots people well. So now I'm rather ambivalent.

Been here 20 years. I'd describe this beautiful country as "mostly wet, but often changeable", which seems to mean many rainbow, which is true.