2 reasons it rocks to be Northern Irish this week:
Today made up for this year’s disappointing lack of snow. Knowing the forecast was for wintry showers, my friend Scott and I headed for the Mournes, and climbed up Slieve Bearnagh…
The wind was gale force at the top and literally blew me off my feet a few times. There was snow, sleet and hail, and [...]
The Bar-tailed Godwit flies from Alaska to New Zealand (about 11,000km) in 5-6 days without stopping to rest or feed. They don’t have satellite navigation.
Stop and think about that. There is a time for studying and analyzing what we find in nature, and there is a time for just sitting back in amazement.
If you can [...]
Until watching Channel 4’s recent documentary on global warming I was about 75% sure that the link between global warming and human CO2 emissions was nonsense, or at least seriously exaggerated. I’m now 99.99% it’s nonsense… and pissed off at the realization that we are letting people in Africa die rather than let them develop [...]
I’ve spent the last 2 weeks getting stressed about buying houses. For those of you not in the UK, house prices here have exploded in the last few years. Houses in places like “The Village” (a fairly dodgy rundown loyalist area of Belfast) have tripled in price, so that I would need a mortgage of [...]
