Category Archives: Explorers

A Mini-ish Update

Not been able to write much recently, as my laptop is on its way out.  Basically the hot weather and being an elderly computer, means that when the battery gets hot, it presses on the tracker pad and bar from … Continue reading

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Pacific Specific and Charlie

Its easy (especially in the comfort of your own home) to underestimate the emotional side of rowing an ocean and also how much psychological preparation is needed for a row, well beyond the physical aspects of training, and in our … Continue reading

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Endings and Beginnings

Trials of a Week This week has been the toughest so far as Director of OPG, as a member of the Coxless Rowers, and also in my PhD quest.  It is a week that has marked the end and the … Continue reading

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Samburu and Grevy’s Zebras: A ‘Win-Win-Win-Win’ Project

Reblogged from Earthwatch Unlocked: The weather has been weird in Oxford lately. Really weird. Two years of low winter rainfall has led to groundwater levels so low that Oxford is officially in drought and we are all being asked to … Continue reading

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Women Painters of the Renaissance

Reblogged from art-profiles.com: The Renaissance The Renaissance (which means ‘rebirth’) heralded cultural movements anchored on the energetic interest in classical literature and art. However, unlike the scholars before them, the Renaissance enthusiasts were not ‘professionals’ and mainly studied for the … Continue reading

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Bicycle Stories

Your First Bike Getting your first ever bike is like a right of passage, something you rarely forget, even if you don’t recall all the intricate details.  I must have been about 5 or 6 years old when I got … Continue reading

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Last Letters: Further Extracts

Reblogged from ISCE journals: Letters to his Mother, his Wife, his Brother-in-law (Sir William Ellison Macartney), Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont, and Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Smith were also found, from which come the following extracts: The Great God has called … Continue reading

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The Time Concept

Why does Time Fly and Yet Stand Still? Its amazes me  how the appreciation and passing of time changes so much between kid and adult-hood.  I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand why this is happens.  Perhaps we just have … Continue reading

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All’s quiet on the Western Front

Reblogged from Have you heard about Annabel?: So, a few weeks have passed since my last update and for the first time since this bizaare rowing thing happened, I do not have much news to report. It is simply ‘more … Continue reading

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Rewards for Cycling Around London

I just came across this very interesting scheme (via an email) which has been introduced in London as a way of helping the environment and easing congestion.  I hadn’t heard about it before, and I wonder how successful it will … Continue reading

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