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Snow in London
Last night I drove up to London just after it started snowing. It took me about 3 hours rather than 1.5 to 2. The M25 was a blizzard, we were all crawling along completely unable to tell which lane we...
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Antarctic report 2 – Penguins, balloons, stuffing and apple sauce
The penguins are noisy and smelly and fear us little. The young ones still have there down feathers and will not leave the ice until they have moulted. They vary in size from 300mm to 600mm and some...
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Antarctic report 3 – Mech boys, adventuring and the flow
We hear that the Igarka has now left Cape Town and that there was some concern over the lashing of the cargo with a separate stevedore team having to be employed to check the loads for insurance...
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Snow in Brighton
Emerging from the station Brighton was quiet and white and the copper standing chatting was a nice contrast to the screaming policeman I'd seen earlier on the underground.
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Pictures from the Halley Research Station, Antarctica
Pictures from the Halley Research Station, Antarctica
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Snow in Prague
On Tuesday evening I ate at a traditional Czech restaurant. By traditional I mean that we ate traditional pork with dumplings and an excellent Czech lager. Very good. I am not certain whether the...
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The Wrong Floor
An exhausted traveller arrives in Prague on a bitterly cold winter's night and finds himself several miles from his hotel. He trudges through the snow toward the hotel while an eerie bell tolls...
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Snow chaos – Management keep their heads down
This has become so much an accepted part of British life that the Transport Secretary now goes to meet British Airport Authority and then, like some messenger boy, is forced to answer questions from...
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