davidcook

So far, I'm not too displeased with the whole "getting older" thing, except for one bit :

Why am I still clumsy ? Really, you'd think my body would have learned better by now. *sigh*
And I'm clumsy despite a fairly good degree of coordination (I fence, and do ok; I can still juggle 5 balls; I play twitchy computer games ok (for my age) too ). And yet, I can sometimes reach over a table for one thing and discover an "invisible" object on the way, or stumble gracelessly over a crack in the pavement.

Oh well, let's hope that someday super-nano-electro-genetic-engineering[tm] can rework me to work better.


(just to avoid any confusion, this isn't related to my birthday, which is in September; just a random thought)

If a city or large town in Scotland were to be completely abandoned by people (and mammals and insects and other creatures), how long before it would be completely overgrown, with buildings crumbling and roads ruined and forest taking over ?

[Poll #491912]

(I've been walking around the city quite a bit at lunchtimes; it's amazing how many buildings have plants growing on them, and I'm not talking about mere seedlings here - substantial bushes and occasional trees sprouting from chimneys, gutters, rooftops, ledges and downpipes. It's most obvious on a few derelict buildings around the place, which have greenery sprouting all over, but even well-maintained buildings have something growing in the gutters.