Nature Strikes Back

Have just realised that it's almost May and I have done precisely 6 blog posts for the entire year so far. That's an appalling avera...

Now that spring is well and truly upon us I am discovering that what I really missed in the UAE was getting my hands dirty. Yesterday's ...

Have been happily reminded that it's the arty time of year in the UAE. First I got an email from a friend in Sharjah asking if I could d...

This is going to be another moanfest so if you don't want to know the score look away now.... I am really feeling the effects of my f...

I am still unemployed but am becoming rather more philosophical about it now. In fact am considering myself fortunate for being able to reti...

It’s the coldest snowiest winter for decades and the whole country has ground to a halt as has news reporting about anything else. I don’t c...

Got back from the US trip a week or so ago and London has been pissing down with rain ever since. Combined with the inevitably dramatic next...

The Pacific horizon seen from the dramatic, rocky beaches of a 1000 mile (ish) coastline with mountains behind is a combination that make...

The drive from Bryce to our next stop of Zion National Park was on the two scenic highways of 89 and 9 both characterised by mountainous sce...

The next morning we were back on Route 12 and pretty soon arrived at a destination that almost everyone we spoke to had advised us to visit ...