

Titanic termites and GOATS
In the outback of Australia stand cathedral-like structures made of poop and dust. Taller than the roof of a house, the ant-hills tower...


Deafening snakes and stuff
People who are born deaf and gain hearing later in life are often surprised that the sun does not give off a sound, song or noise of some...


Blue and Gold eyed beasts
I might possibly be a reindeer or a caribou. It's the knee clicking thing that has convinced me. Apparently caribou's knees click as they...


Peachy Compliments
Near my home there is a road called Peachgrove avenue. Driving along it I was sad to notice the lack of peach trees. There are lots of...


Creamy serendipity
It was the week before Christmas and shops were packed to the gunnels and yet, there I was, shopping cart at the ready and standing in a...


Educating Yuletide
As a young boy, my father lived in a town called Noupoort in the Cape Province of South Africa. His father was a cockney lad from London...


Fizzing woke woman
Donna Ashworth said something along these lines: "Don't go chasing an ideal of a woman you will never be ... start embracing she who is...


Mudlarking elver and bubbling mud
I have decided that in another life, I want to be a mudlark. Yup. Digging in the tidal mud on the Thames river searching for odds and...


Graduating golfers and Irish jiggers
A few days ago the local TV station had a discussion on strange foods that people enjoy, specifically foods that don't normally go...


Sailing away from pea green boats
I am spending money like a drunken sailor. Or is that offensive to sailors? No idea, but it's what my father used to say. And it is...