Scotland's Challenges

It must be so boring living in other parts of the world, where people only have to deal with earthquakes, bushfires, explosions in nuclear power stations, war, invasion by the Americans and the occasional asteroid.

Here in Scotland we've cornered the market in threats to our existence. If it's not our oil and gas running out, windfarms killing off the birdlife, fish farms poisoning the seas, it's our ageing population draining us of cash, failing public services, hospitals killing people, crime - and so on.

Surprisingly, none of this is true. Most of the bad news from Scotland is actually quite good news: Monday's big news on the BBC Scotland website today is:

 'Sixth person tests negative for Coronavirus.'

Now there's a new challenge for us: coastal erosion. Scotland is falling into the sea. It's odd this: I could swear about a decade ago, the country that was falling into the sea was England - mainly the east coast of England. In fact, I've seen pictures of poor souls watching their houses tumble into the ocean.

In Scotland, we don't stop living because of  these predictions of doom and gloom. We do what sensible people do: recognise they're nonsense and save our energy for the really big challenges. Like the fitbaw.