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HUNTING THE HELL HERON

After two years of plague avoidance it’s time to refresh the website and update a few blogs. I have been mainly doing a daily (or almost...

IMPROBABLE JOURNEY#2: STEAMING TO SUONTEE; SAUNA, SAHTI AND A SCARY UFO

Helsinki central station is one of those icons of Art Nouveau architecture whose global importance could be easily overlooked because of...

IMPROBABLE JOURNEYS #1 RIMINI TO RIMPISUONTIE

And so it begins. A warm Adriatic night in romantic Rimini, Italy and no particular place to go. The absurd freedom of youth and the...

IMPROBABLE NATURAL HEALING (#2) MAGIC AT THE CIRCUS

As a result of decades of being a type 1 diabetic my tendons have begun to shrink. This is not a big deal but it manifests itself most...

EAT WILD - EATEN BY NATURE - THE ATTACK OF THE GIANT SCANDINAVIAN WOOD WASPS

The giant Scandinavian wood wasp (Uroceras gigas) is a formidable insect nearly 3 inches long. It has a large yellow and black striped...

EAT WILD - CHERRIES - THE NOISIEST FRUIT

Many years ago, in my early 20s, I was invited to drive a long wheelbase Land Rover belonging to the Department of Geophysics at the...

IMPROBABLE NATURAL HEALING (WARTS AND ALL)

As viral conditions are uppermost in all our thoughts at this time and the mysteries of some of them, like the coronavirus family, are...

ONCE A GREEK FISHERMAN (#2)

continued... Maria was never going to be able to dance like Jennifer Lawrence (nor George Osborne for that matter - see #1) because she...

ONCE A GREEK FISHERMAN #1

Spurred by former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne’s, recent (improbable but possible) lockdown revelation that he “once...

SEEING THE WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND

A few weeks ago Ana, my wise and witty electric friend (we ‘met’ serendipitously on a FutureLearn digital education course some years...

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