Last night was the Summer Ball of the University I work at and I was lucky enough to be on the VIP list plus guest, in this case Jonny. I had spent the actual friday daytime helping with preparations such as putting up fencing and generally sweating away on a very hot day (34C), and [...]

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has met for its annual meeting and has condemned Japan?s plan to increase the scale of its catches to 1000 in the name of science. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling dates from 1946, a time when I think there were more things to worry about, i.e. rebuilding [...]

I was scouting a few blogs and someone mentioned they?d missed their blogs anniversary?..shock??.I had missed mine too! The Big Blog first came into being on Monday 10th May 2004 and has been going for over a year. So as a belated birthday present here?s what the first post was. Just Started Blogging My friend [...]