and why we need them! The Fonz couldn’t ride a motorbike! What? Couldn’t ride a motorbike! No way! But it seems it was true. Henry Winkler mentioned recently that the motorcycling scenes in classic, cult TV show ‘Happy Days’ were faked and he couldn’t even ride a motorbike! ‘They put the bike on a piece [...]
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Where is hippy idealism now? I am not going to write about Glastonbury. In a week where the UK public could not turn on the TV or open a newspaper without Glastonbury previews, reviews or post-mortems , I am not even going to even mention Glastonbury – except, of course, I already have. For those [...]
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Towards the Green Laboratory So will the UK go back to once-a-week bin collections, or will it not! Will your kitchen be filled to bursting with multi-coloured containers for sorting out every possible recyclable object? Will people ever stop griping about waste collection? And why is it that despite some councils providing up to seven [...]
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TALKING SCIENCE It was this week’s wet weather that did it. Took me right back to Welsh holidays spent overlooking the wind-swept Dovey estuary waiting for the rain to stop; which it generally did (local microclimate, don’t tell everybody shhh!). In the meantime there were marathon Scrabble games to be won. It has irritated friends [...]
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Head in the iClouds I hope you are sitting down for this. If you should be reading ‘Bloghazard’ on your Smartphone (Smart? Mine can’t even make a cup of coffee!) or your I Pad (you bright young thing you) while walking along, this might be enough to cause you to have palpitations or a short [...]
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Do you like me? Do you like my blog? I mean it. Do you? OK then, let’s try this one. How about do you sympathise with me and my aims in this blog? Better still do you empathise with ‘where I am coming from?’ Or perhaps you are full of antipathy to me and my approach? [...]
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Turkeys not keen on Xmas shock! Turkeys at Camfarms are to follow in the clawy footsteps of their fellow turkeys at Oxfarms and declare ‘no confidence’ in the Christmas policy of Farmer ‘Two brains’ Willetts, a manger at Coalition Agricultural Silviculture Holdings (CASH). A senior Camfarm turkey said: ‘it’s a critical time to raise a [...]
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