Arctic Ice melt in 2011

If you can put your mind back to the very cold winter in the northern hemisphere last winter you will remember unusually heavy snowfalls and unusually cold weather.Londonhad very heavy snowfalls for many weeks; inBavariait was exceptionally cold and inNorth Americamost cities in the north recorded near coldest ever weather.

Farming the Common Carp

In 1986 I visited what was then known as Czechoslovakia at Christmas time. In Wenceslas  Square in Prague there were huge concrete bowls which were empty when I arrived. The next day they were full of water and full of living carp, a traditional Christmas Eve food in central Europe. People arrived to buy the [...]