Actually no Haggis were spotted( rare and nocturnal) but this was:
Glacier-like hazards found on Ben Nevis
Hazards common in arctic and alpine areas but described as “extremely unusual” in the UK during the summer have been found on Ben Nevis.
A team of climbers and scientists investigating the mountain’s North Face said snowfields remained in many gullies and upper scree slopes.
On these fields, they have come across compacted, dense, ice hard snow call neve.
Neve is the first stage in the formation of glaciers, the team said.
The team has also encountered sheets of snow weighing hundreds of tonnes and tunnels and fissures known as bergschrunds.
The large, deep cracks in the ice are found at the top of glaciers.
Just curious perhaps that this report didn’t appear on the BBC’s science and environment page….lurking instead quietly on the Scotland sub page ‘Highland and Islands’…from which it seems to have disappearedjust a few days on…..
…though we do have this as a main story on the Scotland page:
Salmond does ice bucket challenge
Alex Salmond takes the ice bucket challenge, along with his deputy Nicola Sturgeon, after being nominated by actor James McAvoy. .
Jim Naughtie and Kirsty Wark divvying up their air miles expenses, for endless aimless squabblejock blusters on the BBC.
Really hope they go-can`t bear the endless draining and `uman rights crap that the SNP will bring to us all if they don`t scoot off into the Euro.
No Labour Party, no BBC writ….that`ll do me!
Watching the debate right now. Classic bbc bias, the audience packed with gNats.
BBC Scotland also produce Question Time, coincidentally
utterly appalling pro-SNP bias from the bBC tonight. The audience was packed with hardcore SNP activists who clapped hysterically after Salmondo’s every syllable. Revolting bias.
Good. Sod off.
Not a patch on the stv debate. In the last segment, the moderator asked for questions from four people in the audience. All of them were yes sympathisers. Where’s the balance in that?
got a bad headache listening to that shouting match tonight betreen those 2 plonkers,its still 1/8 on that the no vote will win and the bookies are never wrong. so the wee lad alex must of studied nigels farages demoltion of wet lettuce clegg hence he thrashed darling tonight. but the we lad alex is giving himself a heart attack for nothing because he knows full well the snp dreams of independence is finished.look likes were stuck with the scots simple as that.
BBC Breakfast makes a bee-line for the Guardian as their slide rule to the latest ‘bad tempered’ tartan toad versus tame badger encounter. Wee Alex won it 71%, apparently.
Personally, can’t wait for them to pay up for their very own Strickly Come Reeling, Homes Under the Haggis and Great Marsbar Fry Off.
Once you’ve put your coat on, gone to the door and shouted all the abuse – well, you really ought to follow through.
Don’t slam the door on your way out.
In the book “The World of Ice” published in 1963, James Dyson an eminent American geologist at that time discusses ice ages and their cause. Remember that at this time scientists considered an ice age to be imminent. However he goes to great length to discuss the warming and its effects after the mini ice age. He suggested (as above) neves which continually persist throughout the year gradually grow year by year and become glaciers. The ice sheet that covered Scotland and the rest of Britain formed in this manner at the same place and it happened over a few centuries not millenia. So if he is right Alex Salmond’s little socialist utopia won’t last as long as the Union with England.