Antipodes

Over time, I've got around to considering that a passionate birdwatcher cannot possibly be an entirely bad person. So, the appointment o...

If this story had emerged in the press next Monday, I would have concluded immediately that it's an April Fool's Day tale. We learne...

As a boy, I used to ride my bike across the two-tiered bridge (road/rail traffic) over the Clarence River between South Grafton and Grafton....

It would be unthinkable for me to drive the Kangoo with Fitzroy scrambling around freely inside, because my dear highly-emotional dog has n...

I may be wrong (I hope so), but I have the impression that few people today are aware of the amazing scientific achievements of this humble ...

Whenever a village is flooded, small boats arrive on the scene, seemingly out of nowhere. Then, as soon as the floodwaters subside,...

OK, the vehicle I brought home yesterday is not a kangaroo... but maybe the next best beast, named Kangoo (because of its spacious po...

An adjective that amuses me in the case of wild birds is "sedentary", which evokes a vision of a couple of tiny birds that have ju...

Once upon a time, if you had asked me what the word "terrier" means, I would have said that it designates the kind of little dog y...

The burgeoning primroses of Gamone were surely surprised to discover that, during the night, flakes of late-winter snow had fallen upon thei...

For the first time in ages, I drove up to Grenoble yesterday and spent an hour or so in the archives. In the context of my research concerni...

My gastronomical enthusiasm for supermarket minced steak (for my standard chile con carne dish) was dampened by the recent horse-meat affai...

... between me and the Sistine Chapel? Did I hear somebody say that, what's in common is that both William and the Sistine Chape...