I can’t tell you how dark that pitch black is. Not many people will have truly experienced the surreal darkness of total pitch black. You can when you…
We went canoeing on the River Derwent at Matlock in the Peak District. We should have known a lot better, should have known we would have ended up…
With a very significant birthday, it’s time to let one old fossil see something older than myself. So we’ve been to see Titus the Tyrannosaurus rex at Wollaton…
This is my 1 year long exposure of the sun rising and setting each day. This is solar astrophotography at its most basic, photography at its most basic…
It’s been dubbed Britain’s Roswell, the site of an alleged UFO landing on British soil and we’ve been star trekking across the universe, or at least the Suffolk…
On the 23rd November, we’ve had to say goodbye to our beloved Lurcher, Lord Nelson. He was 9 years old, our dog and our best friend, you were…
I am at the border of a nether world, that plane of existence between the voids of suffering and despair. We have survived our first night wild camping…
It’s been a while, a holiday that is and we are back from an epic Argyll and Bute road trip, and we’ve had a glorious time. The video…
I said that Mrs Cook was going to get sore and scraped knees for our wedding anniversary and we’ve made it happen by going weaseling in the Peak…
It was supposed to be cycling on the green trail, the family friendly route for people of all abilities, nice, flat, unassuming, gentle cycling among the beautiful Nottinghamshire…
My first ever solar prominence time lapse! This should probably more accurately titled how not to make a solar prominence time lapse. It’s the first time, for me…
There are many variable when it comes to solar viewing and trying to take images of the sun. UK weather is not known for its particularly sunny disposition…
While having some unusually seasonally clear and warm weather, why not make the best of this furlough and use the time to scan the skies and the sun.…
Being an unashamed geek and at the age of 48 who still gets excited at the thought of fossils and all things dinosaur (my favourite is a pachycephalosaurus),…
Rain is forecast, lots of it. So we’ve tried to tactically dodge the worst of the weather with a jaunt to Cheddar Gorge and Gough’s cave. Cheddar Gorge…
Our first full day on our week off has been spent exploring Exmoor. Not sure what we were expecting, apart from rain, grey skies and another probable lacklustre…
The realities of van life and life on the road laid bare before you. Having spent a whole 3 nights days in a campervan in some pretty atrocious…
For some, Van Life #VanLife maybe just another one of those travel fads, as cliched as backpacking in Thailand, either way, it’s probably the ultimate millennial hashtag. You…
We’ve had to let little Billy go today (24th October). Small cat, big heart, big mouth, big personality, huge loss. Our little lap buddy will be sorely missed.…
Jack Lousma, aeronautical engineer, astronaut, pilot, politician. That’s quite a career, joining the United States Marine Corps in 1959 before being selected as an astronaut in 1966. He…
Well it might be over 700 years old with a layout as lawless as an open plan prison riot, (let’s not forget the funfair free-for-all fisticuffs of the…
The last time we went to Wales, we got ourselves into a bit of a pickle tripping over tricky tongue twisting Welsh words. So in order not to…
Back from the big smoke for our anniversary break in London. Originally, this was supposed to a cheap break and turned out to be anything but. Life in…
We’re in London to see the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum. Its a collection over 700 items from his films, and we’re pounding the streets of…
Bond in Motion at London Film Museum is a collection of over 100 original vehicles and artefacts from 24 James Bond films reserved for your eyes only….. if…
Now I’m stood on the edge of a bridge ready to jump off, with a crowd of onlookers ready to fair me well on my short journey down…
I’m not sure the world is prepared enough to see me in a skin tight wetsuit, but it’s about to happen. Sorry, but it’s quite necessary as we’ve…
We’ve gone glamping in Grantham, glamorous camping. Our first glamping v camping comparison. We’ve both done a fair bit of camping in our time, Sam thanks to her…
We’ve been boating on the Norfolk Broads and only crashed the boat once. You can’t say that the Norfolk Broads is renowned for its excitement, crack houses or…
Wars are rarely, if ever, civil. Civil wars especially, rip countries apart, tear towns apart, turn brother against brother, where muskets mean military warfare, where sword meets flesh…