Wrangel Island is no venue for a beach holiday, not if you want to survive, anyway. Saying it’s “a bit nippy” would be the mother of all understatements. Wrangel Island sits, shimmering in the Arctic...
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HA! Love it. Everyone who’s famous is definitely in the Illuminati, that’s something you will have learned in the last few years. If you have cash but no discernible talent you are part...
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I’ve never been that into computer games. I mean, I used to have 128K Spectrum which I enjoyed once the tape cassette had finished its arduous 30 minutes of screeching. I had the...
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A recent fixture in the news-media has been the royal marine who murdered a wounded Taliban prisoner at point-blank range in Afghanistan. Before emptying one off into the suspected insurgent’s chest, Sergeant Blackman...
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Everyone knows the term ‘sonic boom’, and most people know it’s the noise an aircraft makes (or anything else for that matter) when it breaks the sound barrier. That was pretty much all I...
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This video featuring some North Korean children playing guitar has had well over 18 million hits, but none of those hits belonged to me, until today that is. I’m a newcomer to this little...
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This post is a high five to humans. It’s a tribute to that capacity to make do and mend that gave us the hand down from the trees we needed and allowed us...
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The kingfisher has always been my favourite bird, partly because it’s one of the brightest coloured birds you’re likely to see in the wild in Britain, but also because there’s an air of...
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This morning I’ve spent a fair few hours looking through old Russian film posters. Why? You may ask. My response to that question is a) why not? and b) you have a look,...
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Burma, or Myanmar, is one of the biggest countries in South East Asia. Its slow economic growth and insular, military rule have kept much of its natural environment pretty darned pristine. Logging and...
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