Christmas comes but once a year, even though it seems to start in August. Nothing says Christmas like a 6 foot plastic tree in your front room (and yes, Santa will judge…

They say that electric vehicles are the future so we’ve come to find out with a sedate Segway adventure in Sherwood Forest. To call it a Segway safari would be a bit of…

Just back from a 3 day trip to the ridiculously under-priced eastern Europe, this time in Hungary for a Budapest city break. Savvy people that you are, or for those that have picked…

I was 13 years old in 1984, the Cold War was still years away from thawing, Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative had been announced the year before, and Space Shuttle Challenger is launched…

On the 1st of November, we had to let go of Elvis, our handsome 21 year old cat. He’s a big loss, an absolute character. Its going to be strange not to…

Eeee by eck. We’ve a couple of days off from that nasty four letter word so we’ve come up to the North Yorkshire Dales (t’yorkshire) for some extreme dog walking. Land of flat…

It’s fair to say that if you don’t know your Klingons from your Quarks then the Star Trek Exhibition in Blackpool is not for you. If however you like star trekking across…

I can count on two fingers the amount of times I’ve been to Blackpool, both ended in tears. Once in 1977 at a Dr Who exhibition, I ran out screaming in sheer terror…

In April 1972, Apollo 16 was the tenth manned flight in the Apollo program, leaving the cradle of Planet Earth for another world. Onboard that spacecraft, the Lunar Module Orion undocked from the Command…

Jerry Bostick is a former NASA flight controller who worked in Mission Control during the golden age of spaceflight on Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab programmes, I’m meeting Jerry Bostick at the National…

It is described as “60 seconds of fun” which would seem quite appropriate as this experience is to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Mrs Cook states that most experiences with me only last…

Being a bit of an old fossil myself, I find nothing more interesting than looking at other old fossils so I’m at Wollaton Hall (yes, Bruce Wayne’s house in Batman) to see some…

Eye spy with the London Eye, something beginning with C. Wrong. It’s the Capital and we are in it, jolly old London town. When a man  is tired of London, he is tired…

Weird things in jars. That’s how best to describe the Grant Museum of Zoology. Not for the squeamish, this offbeat museum in London is one of the oldest natural history museums in…

I’m feeling a dummy at Madame Tussauds, the place is an utter freak show. I’m not talking about the waxworks inside, or the queue outside of thousand of thronging visitors lined up…

Han Solo can apparently fly successfully through an asteroid field at odds of 3,720 to 1. Coincidentally, that is also the same number of people visiting the Star Wars Identities exhibition and…

In 1997 during a docking test with the use of an onboard remote control, an unmanned cargo vessel collided into the Russian Mir Space Station. The collision punctured part of the space…

The weather is scorching, the residual heat from a thousand local BBQs are not helping the situation and it feels like my sunglasses have melted on to my head. The sun in…

We’re feeling the the undeniably pull of attraction to visit Woolsthorpe Manor deep in the rural Lincolnshire countryside, a site of scientific interest for it is the birthplace, family home to Sir Isaac…

The Northumberland Coast, a few days of extreme dog walking adventures in England’s least populated county at the edge of the empire in Northumberland, along the coast of Northumberland from Newbiggin to…