David Coveney

I must be hav­ing a cre­at­ive spurt or some­thing.
Another one for b3ta.

Oh, and ta to Douglas Adams for the ori­ginal basis of the idea (I think it was in So Long and Thanks for all the Fish), and to my friend and col­league James White­head for addi­tional inspiration.

Cuba has, shall we say, a more relaxed approach to elec­trical safety than some other coun­tries. In part because it’s poor — good elec­trics are expens­ive — but also, I sus­pect, because of some ignor­ance and lack­a­dais­ical enforce­ment too.
But I was still sur­prised to see this shower in our first B&B:

I will say one thing, however […]

Ok, it’s sup­posed to be video of the week… yet since Christ­mas I’ve not been updat­ing this sec­tion. My Bad!
Now, I’m not about to go back to updat­ing weekly. I’ve been busy, I’ve got trips planned, and it’s hard to update this sec­tion every single week unless some of you start send­ing me qual­ity mater­ial!
But […]

They start tun­ing things other than cars and motor­bikes. Things like, I dunno… chainsaws:

Some­times you record a great hillclimb run (this one up Loton Park) only to find a tech­nical glitch has spoilt the record­ing. So if that’s the case, you must improvise.…

Car stunts have never had the flash factor of motorbikes…now it’s changed! It’s a viral, but good… here’s the two that have been done so far:

Racing on a budget…

Wel­come to our site — it’s taken a lot of work to get this far and… hang on, let me just check the site’s still up. Oh I’d bet­ter save this file just in case. Hang on. Right where was I? Oh yes, we’re try­ing to do a lot of work […]

It was Douglas Adams that sug­ges­ted that wherever you are in the uni­verse, ask­ing for some­thing that sounds like “Gin and Tonic” will usu­ally give you the same drink. Of course I’ve only been able to test this the­ory on Earth, but so far it had proven unbreak­able. So in a non touristy […]