EdFringe 2015: Epilogue
August 2015
Filed Under: baked potato, Blog, Chris Hadfield, Comedy, edfringe, Edinburgh Fringe, ESA, Festival, Free Fringe, George Monbiot, News
I’m at home, in my PJs, after having slept in a bed that wasn’t just a thinly designed cover for a bag of springs, and having eaten food with vitamins in it. I am the sort of tired you can only have after performing nearly every day for 3 and a bit weeks straight. I […]
Not Enough Hours In The Day
June 2014
Filed Under: All The Pretty Horses, American Gods, Blog, Books, Comedy, Cormac McCarthy, days, Feral, George Monbiot, News
I’ve always thought there are exactly enough hours in a day. This view is mostly based on the fact that a day is constructed of 24 hours (excluding leap days) and so if we were to start adding hours willy-nilly to it, it’d get fairly confusing. Meeting people would be difficult, watch and clock manufacturers […]
Sinking, Not Swimming
February 2014
Filed Under: Atlantis, Blog, Climate change, Comedy, David Cameron, Eric Pickles, Flooding, George Monbiot, Global Warming, News
I’ve been thinking a lot about the lost city of Atlantis these last few days. If the island wasn’t just a fictional creation and did exist, now somewhere miles underwater, now inhabited by a variety of sea life rather than denizens that it once used to hold, I wonder what it’s last few weeks would […]