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HOT DEALS – Cheap flights to exotic Pakistan
Friday, August 6th, 2010CHEAP HOLIDAYS ABROAD!!!!! BOOK NOW, BEFORE THE FLOODS SUBSIDE* Amazing opportunities! Washed away with excitement? BBC reporter Orla Geurin recently pondered whether the Taliban will take advantage of the terrible ‘natural’ disaster in northern Pakistan (1600? body count on day 1, 4million affected, 1.5 million kids at risk of drowning, disease, hunger) But WHY not [...]
Volcano inspired poem by Newton Emerson . . .
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010. . . . . THE EARTH EXHALES Thanks to Angela Raffle for sending this one to me. Made me laugh out load! COME, FRIENDLY ash drifting over Krakow. We are not fit for travel now. We need a chance to forget how. Linger, cloud! Come, ash and blow to smithereens. The plans of all [...]
Iszy Peck – normal is not the same as right!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Iszy Peck is a Bristol based singer-song writer, with a lot on her mind . . . . Let’s Save Ourselves Are we going to tell ourselves that it is our right to live however we want? Is it too hard to change? Or, are we going to accept that many of the things we [...]
Sign of the Times – The battle over Heathrow
Monday, January 12th, 2009Whilst thumbing through the Times today I came across a full page advert that stopped me in my tracks. No doubt placed in part to coincide with the protests against a third runway being held at Heathrow. Tackling climate change is again and again referred to as the single most important issue to face mankind. [...]
10,000 planes – A GreenThing film
Friday, January 9th, 2009This is a great little film, Stay Grounded, from the guys at The GreenThing. Someone asked me last night “how hard is it never flying?”. . . well I occasionally find the idea appealing on one level but really once the false connection with holiday is broken it’s not such a big thing. I enjoy [...]
Bikebudi rides to the rescue!
Thursday, October 16th, 2008So you pledge to be free from flying and decide to go the whole hog and give up the car too. . . Worried about how safe it is to cycle? Cecilia Bromley-Martin tells us more about a new way to feel confident about cycling: It’s true, you’re unlikely to be able to substitute a [...]
Penguin protest
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Rachel Bright’s little poem from a worried penguin in her head
Daniel Start’s wild swimming around Britain
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I met Daniel Start at the end of last Summer when he moved into my friend Jo’s house in Bristol. He’d just finished writing a book, Wild Swimming, about all the beautiful rivers and pools he’d visited in the UK where you can go swimming and he’s done a blog for us on his travels [...]