Ill wind blowing over the Dales

I WAS out for a walk at the top end of Wharfedale the other day and saw an automated weather station with only an anemometer and wind vane plus solar panels and data logger.

On the ground below the mast was a very wet delivery note that was addressed to a farm near Skipton that was sent from a renewables energy company.

It does not take much to put two and two together and that at the very least someone is investigating the feasibility of installing one or more wind turbines for power generation in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Keeping track of Easter

From: JN Duckitt, Wormley Hill, Syke House, Goole.

MICHAEL Brown’s article on the movable feast of Easter (Yorkshire Post, March 18) does not clearly explain how the date of Easter is fixed and he refers to keeping Easter on the first Sunday after the full moon. He should have said that Easter takes place on the first Sunday after the full moon following the Spring Equinox, ie March 21.

This accounts for Easter 2011 being so late. The full moon following the Spring Equinox is April 18, so Easter Sunday follows on Sunday, April 24.

Why should the moon dictate when we celebrate Christ’s resurrection? Incidentally, is the man who sees a thousand moons living on borrowed time?

Animal magic

From: Ken Holmes, Cliffe Common, Selby.

It now seems that we have plummeted to the absolute depths – referring to our politicians in animal terms, ie our Foreign Secretary being described as a donkey (Yorkshire Post, March 12).

In my humble opinion the voters of Richmond have always made a good, sound and wise choice by selecting Mr William Hague as their MP. And as far as ‘hee-haws” and politicians go, I would much rather describe our Foreign Secretary as a classic winning racehorse