Surveillance, Saraharan Sand, and Pyornkrachzark’s roller

It’s been a funny old week. The planet that I am currently living on (‘Earth’, according to the locals) has … More

Van Dykeing the flue and bunging on the new salt-caked short smoke-stack

The weather here this rather august August has been roasting hot, monsoon rains, blasting winds, very occasionally, very briefly quite … More

Today is autumn. It’s (relatively) warm, but dark and with belting winds and lashing rain. It’s delicious. Yesterday was summer. … More

So in immediate celebration I am cookering a hot meal. A curry to be precise. A “Whatever is in the … More

… was set off by one particular lightning strike and peel of thunder last night. It was.. impressive. Otherwheres had … More

Any of you trapped overseas in any of the more moist and over-heated hell-holes of the world may well laugh, but … More

Let us see what today brings, shall we? More of the same, I suspect. Ugh! How hot and humid was … More

Yesterday hereabouts was – in old money – 90° of the Flaming’eckanoids and as humid as the inside of a … More

Being a model subject of Her Majesty QEII I have a varied selection of anti-fine apparatus. I have el cheapoid … More

…and we’re still only about half-way through. One thing that has always puzzled me is the whole-of-population process that must … More

This is not schadenfreude, this is not cocking a snook. This is simply reportage from a war zone. I have … More