From Laser Clay Pigeon Shooting to Quad Bikes, here are 5 great ways to laugh and have fun… Unfortunately, the summer has come to an end and all the fun outdoor activities will soon have to be shifted indoors. Still, that shouldn’t stop us from dreaming of the next summer […]

As a man with limited hill walking experience and a propensity to sit in the firing line of the pleasant sunshine, I was at best ambivalent about my wife’s idea of a summer holiday. Circumnavigating around the Mont Blanc range wasn’t top of my ‘self-preservation agenda’ for our summer holidays. […]

The beginning of September is a noteworthy part of the year. The 1st is the day the wreckage of HMS Titanic was discovered (and subsequently the ship’s magnificent cellar housing 12,000 bottles of wine – many of which were still intact). It’s independence day in Uzbekistan. It’s Gloria Estefan’s birthday. It is also the 244th day of the […]

North Face has launched a new initiative called “Longer Days” that encourages outdoor endeavours now that spring has arrived. The company, which sells outdoors kit including camping and hiking gear, has created two competitions in which users can win daily and weekly prizes ranging from high quality outdoors utility backpacks to a […]

Sometimes reminiscence can bring out romance. Headers and Volleys is that rarest of things: a game which, in my mind, has lost neither appeal nor excitement despite the often diminishing effects of time. Playing at the age of 23 still felt as it did at 13. All those afternoons and […]

We are still in the first quarter, more or less, of the year: January to May equals diet season. The media hurts our tender, food-saturated brains with images of scrawny (or, indeed, buffed up) men and women who have already begun their weight-loss journey for the summer. We squirm, we […]

Reportedly, Disney had lost faith in ‘The Lone Ranger’ during the production stages. Despite having Johnny Depp to play the iconic character Tonto, and Director Gore Verbinski of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ fame, the outlook of this film was not all that promising. If you go into this film with […]

‘Pacific Rim’ is this summer’s blockbuster action flick. From viewing the trailer, it was something that looked a bit too familiar. It seemed to be just another ‘Transformers’ knock-off being touted out by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros studios to milk the ‘Transformers’ cash cow. But ‘Pacific Rim’ is something […]