From George Orwell's diary, 09-Aug-1942.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
HOLY CRAP, IT WORKED!!!
Nasa's Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars!
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
by Robert Macfarlane. Third book in a magnificent trilogy about landscape. This book is ‘the third in a loose trilogy about landscape and the human heart’. Its predecessors, Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places, set unreasonably high standards; The Old Ways lives up to them. Macfarlane describes a number of journeys he made… Continue reading The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
Defeatist
Olympics venues stuffed - Lord Coe.
As a rule, I'm against unnecessary animal experimentation
…but, in the case of cats, I'm prepared to make an exception.
There can be only one winner
Murdoch steps down from NI boards.
Woody
Video: Vigilante Man
A River Runs Through It
Video of torrential rain in Hebden Bridge.
Festival of sport
Are the rest of you as fed up as I am with the Olympics yet?
You write ’em a check and you then add zeros…
Video of the Long Ryders' 'Looking for Lewis and Clark'.