I didn’t want to like Avatar too much. It’s the most expensive movie ever made, costing around $280 million to make and another $150 million to hype, and that’s enough reason to give it a wide berth. Besides Avatar is supposed to be pitched against a much smaller, cheaper British film in the race for [...]
Admiral Nelson suffered from seasickness right until he met his Trafalgar. When he met other seasick sailors, he’d tell them “If you don’t want to get seasick, go and sit under a tree.” This approach ensured he died a figure of nautical, rather than arboreal, legend.
Common sense might tell tell us, if you can’t see, [...]
There are some good things about the desert. For one, in the desert ‘you can remember your name, ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain.’ Well, it’s true if you’re in a early-seventies soft rock band and you’re singing about the Mojave.
The desert has also been the subject of good TV [...]
A couple of years ago I was roped in to clean the leaves from gutter around my elder sister’s house. At one stage, fumbling with the trowel I momentarily lost my balance, the aluminium ladder clattered against the wall and the cry went up “Health and Safety!” Luckily I stayed on my 10 feet low [...]
