Antipodes

Last year, I was delighted by the month-long presence of several beautiful finches at Gamone, from the middle of February to the middle of ...

[ breaking news, Saturday afternoon, February 22, 2014 ] I hope my blog title is not naively over-optimistic... A few weeks ago, I was en...

The following image shows a group of women attending an electoral meeting in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The name of the professional p...

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And when in Saudi Arabia, put on a costume that makes you look like a desert chief. When my sist...

Every year, in February, I look forward to the first primroses, harbingers of spring. Well, they started to appear here a few days ago. ...

The short video that you’re about to see provides a brilliant condensed summary of the absurdities of creationism. The opening interview say...

My future great-grandfather William John Pïckering [1843-1914] left London for the Antipodes aboard the Zealandia in 1860, at the age of ...

This year’s sunny Darwin Day at Gamone seems like the first day of spring… but I might well be a little over-optimistic.

I’ve tweeted my disgust (a drop in the ocean) of this ugly depiction of the victims of an earthquake in the Philippines, which has just rec...

This is my final cover design for the family history of my mother’s people in Australia, which is about to be published by Gamone Press in...

As a boy on the rural outskirts of South Grafton, I lived just a stone’s throw away from a pristine paradise: Susan Island, a luxuriant rain...

There’s no doubt about it: my novel All the Earth is Mine is now available through Amazon like any ordinary book… and probably right thro...

The more I hear about the encounters of Pope Francis with the modern world, the more I get the impression that this nice fellow (an except...

I suggest that you start the following video immediately.  Like many people, I love to watch trains go past. I hope you share with ...

In a split second of intense revelation, I was stunned by an amazing video produced by Infinite Circularity Ministries . It convinced me tha...

This moving video contains amazing moments of tenderness between the chimpanzee Wounda , about to be released in the Congo jungle, her care...

Bob ten Hoope [1920-2014] One of the most interesting individuals I encountered when I came to live in Choranche in 1994 was the Dut...