The bings extended across West Lothian. In the 1960s when I was a child they exuded a horrible toxic sulphurous miasma if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, as the unextracted oil residue in the shale continued to cook under the pressure of the weight of the shale above (the primitive extraction processes were inefficient by modern standards). Bathgate was the chemistry epicentre where the paraffin was refined on an industrial scale. I grew up just along the road from there.
Amazing. Hope it didn’t do you any harm. Very strange to have all this so close to home. There seems to be some efforts to making them more accessible to more than just kids on dirt bikes.
Good to know about Niddrie Woman in particular. Surely AI is about to takeover from global warming as the thing that everything else revolves around. Every text, every dream, every piece of art...
The bings extended across West Lothian. In the 1960s when I was a child they exuded a horrible toxic sulphurous miasma if the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, as the unextracted oil residue in the shale continued to cook under the pressure of the weight of the shale above (the primitive extraction processes were inefficient by modern standards). Bathgate was the chemistry epicentre where the paraffin was refined on an industrial scale. I grew up just along the road from there.
Amazing. Hope it didn’t do you any harm. Very strange to have all this so close to home. There seems to be some efforts to making them more accessible to more than just kids on dirt bikes.
Good to know about Niddrie Woman in particular. Surely AI is about to takeover from global warming as the thing that everything else revolves around. Every text, every dream, every piece of art...
I automatically zone out of anything that looks AI. An analogue revolution is coming!!
I learned something new today. Thank you!