I was looking at a documentary about Kashmir and Pakistan, and it struck me, looking at the lorries and the taxis and the cars all turned into marvels of ornate decoration, that I'd love to see what those people would do with the over austere minimalist looking wind turbines set in those straight lines which our designers and planners seem so wedded to. And all the other people all over the world who throughout history have effortlessly made the things they have created so good to look at.

Inventing ways of harnessing wind power that would fit into our landscape as easily as the grass and the trees is quite possible. We happen to be stuck at present in a culture which is pretty tone deaf when it comes to beauty, but that's not the way humans are most of the time.

If there's one thing we should have learnt from folk music, that's it.