On the drive home from a week­end in Pringle, we were treated with the bril­liant spec­tacle of a mother whale and her calf jump­ing and frol­ick­ing in the waters of False Bay. All this was much to the enjoy­ment of ourselves and a couple of hun­dred other folk that had got­ten out of their cars […]

Get to know me for more than 2 minutes and you’ll prob­ably start to get the impres­sion that I like to laugh. A minute later you’ll real­ise that I tend to laugh a lot at really stu­pid things. Another minute, you’ll prob­ably be want­ing me to shut the hell up — but let’s not concentrate […]

Sometimes, mere words are overrated.

A quick announce­ment and an appeal for your help: I have recently been given the fant­astic oppor­tun­ity to run away from the glor­i­ous(?) cli­mates of London and par­ti­cip­ate in a week-long dog sled­ding trek 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. Tomorrow.

Oh, The Internet. Just when I think I’ve seen everything you could pos­sibly offer — you go and sur­prise me once again. After a pro­longed con­ver­sa­tion with a chap in a pub that thought I looked like Chris Martin from Coldplay (I don’t) I found this site that will tell you using SCIENCE and FAIRYDUST […]