Author Archives: ChrisC
Matthew’s Linn From The Air at Kielder Water
And it’s another spot of video! This time taken from the air at Matthew’s Linn in the Kielder Forest Park!
Continue readingThe Guardian on… Cults.
Apparently, in those more freeform pre-Blair-government days of February 1997, The Guardian (or at least those parts of the Guardian who worked Saturdays to put out the Observer) decided to put out a guide to cults.
Douglas Adams in MacWorld (May 1985)
An old (and, alas, they’re all old now) interview with Douglas Adams from the May 1985 issue of Macworld. Transcription is via OSX’s images to text service.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – May 2021
See my 2022 update here!
14 months and one minor apocalypse since my last outing, it’s time to return to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and to see how work on the the new expansion has progressed. And progressed it has!
Maps
Manic Street Preachers – From There To Here (BBC2 1998)
Another nice mid-90s documentary, this time on the Manic Street Preachers.
Linkspam
How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television
Up until the late-1990s, if you missed something on television then it was unlikely you were going to see it again any time soon. Even if you had – and I understand younger readers’ horror at this proposition – managed to position yourself in front of your television at a set time, you would need a hardy memory to remember it over the years.
curious british telly
‘How the Internet Gave Us Access to Obscure Television‘ is a nice short history of of British media trading as it transitioned from tape trading to BitTorrent and then onto modern Youtube.
Continue readingComic Relief’s Income
Apparently it was Red Nose Day 2021 a couple of weeks ago and I completely missed it – as I have for the past decade or so – which is odd because, as a child, I used to really enjoy it.
Anyway, I wondered how it’s income was standing up after – of course – the effects of inflation have been taken into account.
Continue readingKirkham Priory Weir, Easter Sunday 2021
A little video from the weir at Kirkham Priory in North Yorkshire.
And the same weir in slow motion…