Glen Finglas Reservoir

Looking towards Stuc Dhubh

Loch Lubnaig in the distance

Windy and wet on Benvane today

Cherry blossoms in front of a gray sky

Bright pink cherry blossom trees

A cherry tree with Pingding village in the background

A path through the jungle next to a small canal

Spent yesterday looking for cherry blossom in a gray and rainy Pingding village outside Taipei. There's also a network of paths on the banks of the old water supply canals.

Shihmen dam from below

Shihmen dam from above

Shihmen reservoir under misty clouds

An early cherry tree in bloom

Some pictures from Shimen Reservoir near Taoyuan in Taiwan. The area is beautiful, and seemingly not very popular with tourists, hence not too crowded.

Beitou, Taipei seen from above

Beitou Thermal Valley, with steam rising from a lake

Hot springs in Beitou

A church on a rainy day, with a big partially broken screen on top.

A divine message in Rennes for the POPL conference.

Looking at a "finalised" version of a paper. The good news is that Elsevier fixed 95% of the typesetting errors they introduced as part of the editing process...

1/ I think the greatest success of the far-right hasn't been in marketing racism for its own sake, but rather deceptively positioning of it as an effective if perhaps distatestful answer to major policy problems.

Like it's a necessary evil you have to swallow if you want to address the big issues.

Exterior of the building in white sandstone

The former Consulate of Italy in Glasgow is for sale for £2.5m. The outside looks fairly ordinary but it is the interior that lives up to the title. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Window with decorations of number 1, and a partridge in a pear tree

Window with number 14, a sled, and white fairy lights

Number 15 and an excited elf

Every year, our neighbourhood seem to set up an advent calendar with a new decoration appearing at a random house each day. I have no idea how they coordinate so they don't all do the same number -- so far we have not been invited to take part (probably based on our mediocre Christmas decorations).

Den som skrivit skylten borde skämmas! Det heter "fewer".

Icy spikes on spiky bushes

More ice on bushes

Hoar frost in King's Park

I think Christmas markets are best appreciated from a safe distance. So I don't know.

Glasgow city centre skyline just after sunset. A streak of orange is still visible along the horizon, and there are Christmas market rides visible on George Square.

George Square Christmas Market.

Fun (?) fact: with the current 25% off interrail passes, a year of unlimited 1st class train travel in all of Europe (4 * 3 month global pass, £3060) is now cheaper than a year of unlimited 2nd class train travel between Glasgow and Edinburgh (Scotrail season ticket, £3852).