Just got back from taking the kids to school… eventually… and as I got out of the car… I smelled smoke. Then I looked off to the west at the haze of pollution hanging in the air. It’s surprising how the smoke is beginning to dominate life out here already. If the wind *does* pick … More More on the fires
Over the past few weeks a fire has been quietly burning in the Blue Mountains… currently it’s raging betwen the towns of Bell and Mt Victoria (but about 3 k from each) and is being fanned by high winds. So far it’s destroyed somewhere in the region of 10,000 hectares… yet tonight the place is … More It's a weird old place this
The Palm Jumeirah has to be one of the worlds great modern wonders. Built in Dubai, it is a totally artificial construction which holds huge hotels, expensive housing, and world class support facilities. Just for scale, the little yellow pimple in the middle of the ‘trunk’ is actually a hotel…!! Beautiful… but strangely pointless.
Canadian ‘hunters’ have begun the annual slaughter of baby harp seals expecting to shoot or club to death around 350,000 of the helpless animals. Clubbing is preferable for the sealers as it damages the fur less though there are regular reports of the animals being skinned whilst alive and being left to die in agony. … More Harping on about seals.
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