Keep on Moving

The sight of a white Ford Transit van trundling or sometimes speeding along is a very common on UK roads. And no wonder well over eight million of them have been sold since they were first brought out in 1965. This versatile Van...

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Model ship building

When you think a about it it’s quite easy to make a model ship. A bit of paper folder the right way and then you done. Hardly though the HMS Victory is it? It will float the though till got gets soggy and sinks. To do a proper...

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To be like Yuri

If Richard Branson and other “space” tourist entrepreneurs get their way we could soon see the start of trips in orbit around the planet Earth, albeit for an astronomical price. We may come to see this as normal but once upon...

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How to Survive in the Amazon

If you fancy yourself as a bit of an Indiana Jones or maybe even king of the jungle Tarzan and want to travel to the wilds of the beautiful but deadly Amazon rainforest, then read on – surviving here takes skills and...

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Worshipping the Sun

For centuries human being have worshipped the Sun. Sometimes this worship is directed at the Sun as an entity and in other cases a God or other deity has been attributed with either the powers of the Sun or the responsibility or...

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Desert Orchid

A flash of grey and this dappled beauty could turn many heads. Some backed him purely for his different colour, the mottled grey in a sea of brown. Desert Orchid never worried about Sweet Itch he just worried about winning and he...

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Ageing population

We’re all getting older. That’s a statement of fact but it is a bit of concern because we are becoming an ageing population. What does that mean? Well, it could mean that we have very little youth to do the work but it also...

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The Back to Backs

The National Trust is not renowned for its ownership of working class properties or examples of places where the middle and lower class would congregate. In fact, it has been deeply criticised for not increasing this amount or...

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