I've always been a fisherman. Fishing is part of who I am. From the age of 3, I grew up next to the confluence of the rivers Kird and Arun. They were my playground, my swimming pool and before long, my fishing beat. My first memory of fishing is of a specific bend of the [...]
Crawling Underground: A pub crawl for the Londoner who wants good beer but doesn't want to walk very far to get it. The rules: All bars/pubs/breweries must be within a 10-minute walk from one of the tube stations on the line.No more than 1 pub from a single chain.A minimum of 5 independent bars/pubs/breweries per [...]
Originally published by The Institution of Environmental Sciences in the Toying with Nature: Recreation and the Environment edition of the environmental SCIENTIST in December 2018. Paddy Fowler reviews the relationship between recreation and the environment. On a blustery morning of the 24th April 1932, in the shadows beneath Kinder Scout in the Peak District, some [...]
This dish that can really pack some punch and is a real treat any time of the year. I remember having Char Sui style pork a few years ago in Manchester and since then I have struggled to find somewhere that does it quite like my first taste. This is my take on the recipe [...]
Sweet and tangy but with plenty of kick, this was my attempt at recreating a sauce I finished half a bottle of at a Mexican restaurant in London. This is scalable so feel free to multiply this up or down, our last batch used 8 mangos and 16 of our homegrown Habeneros. For this recipe, [...]
Wild camping in Scotland has long been a dream of mine. To be entirely immersed in nature, roaming with no real plan of where I would visit or how long I would stay. This summer I had the opportunity to live out this dream as Caitlin and I filled a couple of backpacks and headed [...]
Saturday morning for me means waking up a little too early and heading to the park for a vigorous 5km run. Why you ask? It is all worth it when you can treat yourself to this once you're all done. After a stop off at the greengrocers for tomatoes, eggs and fresh coriander and popping [...]
The first in a series of posts investigating whether we are living in the future and what technologies that have allowed us to live out our utopian (or dystopian) dreams.
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