Eco Loonies Strike Again
Via the biased BBC this utterly fucking insane idea: Can a simple idea help make the world a better place? Each week we ask a […]
Articles by Longrider
Earth Hour
Via Chicken Yoghurt, I am reminded (reluctantly) about Earth Hour. On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world […]
Southern Smooth Snake
Spied basking in the garden this afternoon. It’s a southern smooth snake (Coronella girondica). Apparently their numbers are in decline, so we’ll let this fellow […]
More on Cycle Helmets
Further to the recent cycle helmet issue, an article in the Telegraph by Alec Lom, who claims that his helmet saved his life, so we […]
Health Snoops
Via the Englishman and Letters from a Tory, this little story. Public health “mentors” will be enlisted by the NHS to offer ‘on the spot’ […]
Spring Springs
After a bitterly cold February, spring has sprung with a vengeance. It’ll be like this until late October. Tags: spring, languedoc, France
The Cycle Helmet and Liability.
Cyclists, it seems, are now facing the same phenomenon so well recognised by their motor driven counterparts for some while now; contributory liability. Helen Pidd […]
Physician Heal Thyself… Again
It seems barely a day passes without someone – frequently a medic – thinking that it is their place to tell us how to live […]