44 Scotland Street. The Prime of Bertie Pollock, Chapter 62: Room 5

Bruce’s extraordinary misfortune in being struck by lightning – again – while re-enacting the original incident for a television documentary, did not have any serious physical consequences. The doctors who examined him at the Royal Infirmary concluded that the main charge had passed him by, having gone to earth through a set of metal railings beside the road. This meant that although, technically, he was hit by the bolt, it was a glancing blow, rather than a full-on strike. The brief period of u...