An truly abominable day's weather out here on Islay today, so we move inside for a look behind the scenes at The Oa.

The Oa reserve is 2,000+ha of windswept moorland and coastal grassland, with many steep cliffs, deep ditches and bogs to trap the unwary or unprepared. However, no area of the reserve is as perilous as Dave's desk, where unwitting items of office stationery and IT hardware are sometimes hopelessly lost for weeks. Determined to remedy the situation, lest we have to write a risk assessment every time someone wants to use the scanner, today Dave set about the task of turning this ugly duckling...

 

Into this beautiful swan...

 

I give it a week.