I found a bunch of photos on a Russian website today ripping the Michael out of us Brits. It was titled “English Rednecks” and it’s a lovingly collated silo of photos taken in English nightclubs....
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Meet The Mobula Ray Mobula ray (Mobula mobular), also known as flying ray, devil fish and my favourite – giant devilray, are huge epipelagic batoids. Basically underwater bats. They aren’t well understood and are relatively unstudied....
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For some reason, I recently got into stamps. I am getting old I suppose. I enjoy the art on them, and the fact that they’re small. Shoot me. Any how, I don’t feel...
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If you thought putting up a post about old North Korean stamps was weird, wait ’til you get a load of this. So I was enjoying searching out images of weird stamps when I came...
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This is the first post I’ve done that is aimed squarely at philatelists. But I hope non-philatelists will be able to enjoy this bizarre selection of North Korean stamps too. I’ve never been...
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Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China gets the prize for being the longest bridge in the world at a startling 164,800 m in length. That’s 100 miles or so, about the distance from Brighton to Oxford...
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So, today I attempted to clear up one of the biggest ongoing dilemmas in my life: what to do with a butt load of last season’s inedibly hot pickled naga chillies? The answer...
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My old pal Flevans was in the market for some meths recently (I didn’t ask why, I didn’t need to know) and he came across some very reasonably priced methylated spirits from Rustins...
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The onion is so common a sight in the kitchens and gardens of the world that it scarcely seems worth a mention. But like so many of the things we take for granted...
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I found the following selection of videos on the BBC website today and all of them made me go “woah!” I’m hoping they produce the same response from you lot. Let’s get going…...
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