Knowing and Making

If you get the email version of this blog you might not have seen the pictures with yesterday's review of the Old Bridge Inn . Do go back and have a look at them if not.

I spent Christmas Day with family at the Old Bridge Inn in Aviemore, in the most beautiful, spectacular snowfall I've ever seen in this country. Aviemore is a mountainside town on the River Spey (home of many of Scotland's malt whiskies ) with skiing and snowboarding in the Cairngorm mountains in winter, and rafting in summer. I haven't been joining in the all-action activities (my comparative advantage is definitely in the intellectual rather than physical factor of production, which reminds us that comparative advantage can accrue purely from an inability in one attribute with no compensating capability in another ). But if I can't ski, I can at least appreciate beauty. The whole landscape is covered with a thick, pristine blanket of snow, the sky is blue and the sunlight makes the world shine like a diamond. Best of all is the Old Bridge Inn . A warm corner in the midst of the snow, with lovely, comfortable rooms, a log fire in the bar, amazing cooking fro...