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Next stop Dakar

I never really wanted to be a Formula One driver or MotoGP racer, not really. Maybe a little bit. But as soon as I learned...

How I wrote a novel in a month

At first sight, it seemed a ridiculous proposition: start writing a novel on 1 November, and have 50,000 words done by the end of the...

Ducking for a Vulcan

I’ve got quite swept up in enthusiasm for the Avro Vulcan, the last airworthy example of which is retiring this year. It’s a remarkable aircraft...

Up hill and down dale

ALWAYS a time for reflection, New Year, and my recent post about the 50,000 miles I clocked up over 18 months in the Citroen DS4...

Citroen DS4: long term test

IT WAS always the wrong car for me, but it came with a job and so I lived with it for 18 months and 50,000...

My own Bourne identity

IN THE 2002 movie, super-cool uber-spy Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) battles to discover his identity by way of fast cars, beautiful women, big guns, and huge...

Open University plays fast and loose

I’M ASTONISHED to see that the Open University has suppressed a comment I left pointing out a basic error on one of its new YouTube videos....

He walks, he talks, he flips the bird

I HAVE to share this picture, received today accompanying a press release sent to my laboratory news website LabHomepage. The story concerns a robot known as...

Why that was no meteor shower

I was lucky enough to witness the strange fireball in the sky at about 11pm last night, Friday 21 September 2012. It was certainly a...