She whipped the roof from my sons' school gymnasium. whirled it over neighbouring gardens, landed it squarely on our patch, "Let no one be out of doors at 12 o'clock" we were warned. Dutifully we watched from windows and saw it land.

At sixteen I was godmother to a baby boy, now an energy consultant to an international organisation. He tells me what happened to our Carbon Dioxide emissions in the late 50's, shooting up beyond levels steady for 800,000 years. We humans raised those emissions rapidly as discovered. by scientist Charles Keeling and known as the Keeling Curve. He told me about our own John Tyndall who discovered the effect of CO2 emissions and the Greenhouse effect.

But there is hope.

I am learning about sustainable fabrics. I am cooking vegetarian dishes for my grandchildren. They made me dump my fabric conditioner, it gets into the sea and its tiny molecules harm the fish. My enemies the snails and slugs feasting on my plants, must be left for the frogs, toads and hedgehogs. Well, if it means the damage we have done is stalled and nature can take over as it has done in Chernobyl. Then I am part of a work in progress.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. John Tyndall Physicist