Premature Detonation

The grand old ladies of Athlone are no more. I had never heard the cooling towers referred to in this way until yesterday when I excitedly turned on E News to watch the collapse. Rowland went to a friends house in Pinelands to take photos but being a sensible man he declined the offer of a view from the rooftop.
Our new early morning radio DJ came up with what would have been a good idea. He said that if he was in charge there would have been music, a flypast and a loud countdown. Good idea. Instead what did we get?? well, if you blew your nose 4 minutes before due time you missed the whole thing and had to wait for UTube or the evening news.
What a pity.
Will we miss them? Probably not. I hope the powers that be don't put in a shopping centre but use the area wisely. I listened to Counting Crows cover version of Big Yellow Taxi this morning and we certainly don't need another parking lot.
What I did learn is that most of the rubble will be recycled and used for building, perhaps in a few years time new houses will be built on the site although I'm rather taken with the notion of a solar power park. I saw one on TV the other evening, I think it was in Spain, (you know how it is when you're surfing, you miss the beginning). The area was filled with solar panels, collecting precious rays to be converted into electricity. How good to keep the original purpose of the site - producing electricity - just in a modern eco-friendly fashion.