Loving these instant Starbuck coffee packs going to take a load to Antarctica with me!

One of the things i really dont miss about the UK

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Rush hour and Traffic Jams ...how much do I not miss this when working away!

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The Old Movie Deficit!

When living in remote locations like Ascension Island or Antarctica it's important to have a good stock pile of movies. With a lack of retail outlets and bandwidth at a premium it's prudent to go with a hard-drive preloaded or full DVD wallet with all your favourite movies.

Having travelled away several times now I've begun to notice a trend and it seems that there is a deficit of old films in the media pool. An abundance of copies of Avatar and Hurt Locker, Shrek and recent movies but no one seems to have the old films especially the video nasty type.

You do seem to find copies of "Back to the Future" and "Karate Kid" but no one seems to have copies of the films like "Robocop" or "Childs Play".

My theory is that where as most people who are in there 30s got to see the PG rated stuff, the violent/horror movies titles only the naughty kids got to see. Chances are if your 30 by the time you were old enough to watch an 18 it would have been Trainspotting or Reservoir Dogs. Anyhow regardless for the reason I've got a month before I head back South and it's my mission to collect as many forgotten 80s classics as possible in advance of those long Antarctic nights. Any suggestions??? (Oh btw - I've already got the "The Thing" :-)

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Re-integration!

The problem with coming home having spent months away is that your greeted by all your problems, all at once.

Bank card has just been blocked, New Fuel Card expired?? breaks on car seized, hot water in flat non existent, broadband service stopped, other bills haven't been paid. Outstanding Work to do, medicals for Antarctica to pass, dentist probably will just laugh at my teeth...my life today reads like an Eminem lyric ...apart from the fact I haven't tied anyone to the bed and set the house on fire!

Most these things are only minor inconveniences but with only 30 days at home its the time I can't afford trying to fix them that's the problem . The frustrating thing is they will get fixed and I will disappear again for another 4 months and when I return it will probably be the same all over again so should I bother! Anyhow please forgive me for moaning I will try not to make a habit of it, going to go get some Pizza and make the most of the good stuff about being home! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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To be home.

"We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time" -T.S.Eliot "The Four Quartets" Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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Runcast.TV a New Dawn!

A few weeks back I posted a blog post and sent a message regarding the future of the Runcast.TV and the potential closure of the site. I have since been informed that very soon Ning will be pulling the plug on the site. At this point I don’t know what that means but we will either see the whole site will disappear or it will remain but with restricted privileges. Whatever happens I have decided that to stay with Ning would be a bad thing and therefore I haven’t pursued Renato to try and keep the site on the network.

Before I continue I'd like to make it clear that Renato and myself are still friends and I would like to personally thank him for making this site possible and giving us all the possibility to share videos with like minded runners. Renato I owe you, and on behalf of everyone we are very grateful for what you made happen. :-)

Secondly can I say thank you to everyone who contributed to the site and made it the place it was, there are so many people who supported it and contributed to it, either through videos or through viewing the site and creating the audience.

In particular I would especially like to say thank you to those who made a extra special contribution Steve Runner, Carlos “The Jackal”, Dave and Gene, Chris Russell, Charles White, Steve Chopper, Toni Harvey, Dave Powel, Nik and Dan, ZenRunner, Nigel Runner, Duff Runner, Eddie Marathon, David Colby Young, Martin Weiner, Darzo, Nathan Bunting, Resurrected Runner, Mark, Gary,Paul, Krister, Harry...the list goes on and my apologies that I’ve missed so many but you know who you are and if ive missed you its not personal - I have a 2000 word limit on this mail L

Can I also thank all those who offered support in response to my last email, it was really appreciated and made me determined that this wouldn’t be the end of the site.

In particular I would like to thank one particular person who has come to the rescue in a manner that is beyond my wildest expectations. That person is Ben from Buckeye Outdoors and I am very pleased to announce that with his help we will be rolling out an all new Runcast.TV within the next few weeks. It will be entirely new sites that will be keeping the raw essence of the original. But behind the scenes it will integrated so perfectly with the Buckeye platform it will take Runcast.TV to the next level, just watch this space its very exciting.

Anyhow for now the site is closing, in the next few days the domain will be hosted at an under construction page (blog) and I will keep everyone posted on the progress and on the details of what’s happening, in the meantime thanks again and I hope you will join us over at the new site once its ready.

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The Sooty Terns of Wideawake Fairs.

Today was one of my first days off for ages so I went on a walk down too Wideawake Fairs ( just next to the airfield here on Ascension Island). This is the home of the Sooty Tern which is a seabird of the tern family found throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake and hence why they call it Wideawake Fairs.

There are thousands of these birds nesting and in antempt to try and scare visitors away the birds make an incessant calls as they swoop down and attack you like something out of the Hitcock movie however they divert right at the last minute and not once did they make contact I did think that if they really wanted to be effective all they needed to do was drop a bit of bird poop and we soon would have left instead we stayed and I took this photo ...which I love!   

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