It's an ill wind...

摘要

About 14 years ago, in another life, I worked the graveyard shift on a daily news service between Christmas and the New Year. I don't know why as no-one was at work to read my pearls of wisdom, but orders is orders. At the time, the river Rhine was undergoing one of its periodic bouts of unnavigability. Sat at a cold desk, with no one else in the office or European chemical industry to talk to, I set to work finding a story.