In the first of a new series of blog posts, I recall my early days and the circumstances that gave me a passion for radio — beginning with the pirate stations of the 1960s … On Monday the 14th of August 1967, at just after three o’clock in the afternoon, I sat alone in my [...]
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Rising Sea Levels
When the waters start to rise, how will coastlines around the globe be affected? A clever mash-up of Google Maps and NASA data gives a graphic illustration of what could happen if sea levels rise by up to 14 metres. George Murphy, who commented on my North Polar Meltdown post, asked if I knew of [...]
Vibrating Pole: Mystery Solved
It puzzled me for days — what caused an old aerial pole on a neighbour’s house to oscillate wildly on a seemingly windless day? The answer, it turned out, wasn’t UFOs, but an equally fascinating phenomenon with its explanation rooted firmly in the science of fluid mechanics. I was genuinely baffled by the mystery of [...]
The Mystery Of The Vibrating Pole
It’s never done it before, and it hasn’t done it since. A disused aerial pole on a neighbour’s house was observed to be vibrating in an unusual fashion on Tuesday 4th November 2008. What could have caused it? This innocent-looking metal aerial pole (now disused — it’s minus the aerial) attached to my neighbour’s house [...]
Somerset Flood Defences Put On Hold
I would have thought that in the wake of Britain’s worst summer floods in years, followed by today’s little panic about a storm surge running down England’s eastern coast, when strong north-easterly winds combined with the highest North Sea tide for fifty years to threaten hundreds of miles of our coastline — even the Thames [...]
Sunrise
Rising early this morning at around 6:15am, I opened the conservatory blinds and found this beautiful sunrise. I rushed for the camera and caught it just before it faded. (Click this photo and the one below to see the full-sized images in another tab or browser window.) Then I took a video with my Kodak [...]
Banwell Bone Cave
For just four special days during each year, a local place of interest opens its doors to allow the public a rare glimpse into an amazing past age. Banwell Bone Cave was discovered in 1824, on land then owned by George Henry Law, Bishop of Bath and Wells. His estate nestled on the shoulder [...]
Glastonbury – Van Morrison & Corinne Bailey Rae
On the day my PC died, Friday 10th August 2007, Marcy and I were looking forward to popping down to Glastonbury for day one of the three-day Glastonbury Abbey Musical Extravaganza, a sort of extension to the famous festival that had taken place in Michael Eavis’s muddy fields a couple of weeks before. This was, [...]
Royal Drive-Through
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II today drove through Banwell en route to her other destinations on a day trip to Somerset. They arrived on the royal train at Yatton Railway Station and travelled by car to Yeo Valley, the dairy processing business in Blagdon. They then visited the For All Healthy Living Centre in Lonsdale [...]
Views From Tiverton Canal
Marcy went to Tiverton yesterday and enjoyed a trip along the canal in a horse-drawn barge. She snapped loads of photos. Rather than post them all here and take up loads of space (you can view them at Flickr), I made them into a video with Windows MovieMaker, set it to Ralph McTell’s Barges and [...]
Sand Sculptures
Weston-super-Mare is hosting an unusual exhibition throughout the summer — well, if you can call it summer! Last week saw the arrival of the World Sand Sculpting Association (WSSA), several tons of sand dumped on Beach Lawns, the wide grassy verge between the beach and the nightclubs and hotels along the front — and some [...]
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