Thunder and Lightning on Loch Ness

I've been travelling along the loch for work most days for the last couple of weeks, and in that time there has been some pretty spectacular weather conditions. I think that Loch Ness may be one of the few places that is enhanced by "bad" weather. Rock faced hills, heavily wooded precipitous slopes falling down to dark leaden waters. The place cries out for dramatic skies. And by golly it gets them. Black thunderheads piling atop one another, gathering together at the waters' head before racing down the loch. A heavy curtain of rain being drawn from bank to bank, filling the skies between the hills, rushing headlong to swallow the entire glen.Very atmospheric.
I swear if there wasn't a monster in there already someone would have to make one up.
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On a different subject. I went to a stained glass workshop at the weekend. Exciting stuff. No really!
Cutting the pieces to size is a nervy business. My heart was in my mouth when it came to snapping the glass. Would it break where it was meant to? Would the whole thing shatter? Then of course there was the bloodshed. Razor sharp shards slicing fingertips. Tiny fragments embedded in skin. I haven't even mentioned the hot solder and boiling flux, nor the toxic chemical treatments.
This is no relaxing past-time for the past-its.
I think that stained glass working should be reclassed as an extreme sport.