Fantasy Football Update

Only 12 games left in the season for most teams in the Premier League, so just a quick update on how our own little office fantasy league is going.

Kieran and Von have stormed out in front and are vying for bragging rights at the top of the table.

Paul has a near 100 point lead over the TID team, but both are over 4oo points behind second place.

But for any major shifts in points, its looking like a 2 horse race!

Reckon you'll need a bigger rod!

Tuna aren't the smallest fish, and probably take a lot of time and effort to catch using just a rod...

But imagine when gearing yourself up for a tussle with a tuna, you accidently snare a Killer Whale!

It can happen....

Surely too many words in one head!

A 20 year old from Oxford University has been named as Britain's most multi-lingual student, and can speak ELEVEN languages!

Puts my French GCSE to shame really....

Ahead of an upcoming visit to Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana...

...I'm hoping to see some Giant otters whilst I'm out there but for my own and everyone else's immediate enjoyment of and education on these sociable and charismatic giants of the tropical South American waterways which are sadly under continued threat.....

...."Saving the world's biggest river otter"...

Continuing today's theme....

More unusual weather happening, this time in Chile.

The town of San Pedro de Atacama in the northern Chile has been put on a flood alert after severe rain in the past few days has swollen the Loa River.

Flooding must seem strange when you live in one of the driest places on the planet!

Spouting over Auckland

Yup, Auckland has a a few twisters floating around the harbour and creating water tunnels.

Nowhere near the size of the ones which rip houses from their foundations or chuck cows around, but still they still look pretty impressive!



(No-body was hurt though, don't worry!)

New Zealand's Top Ten Roads!

New Zealand is a place of such variety and wonder, there are so many roads throughout the country with fantastic scenery and views, many roads are experiences in their own right!

But which ones made the list?

The harsh truth about conservation in New Zealand...

Can't say that I'm actually happy to be helping to kill stoats as they are truly beautiful animals.  That said, they do have their place and it isn't in New Zealand - http://www.newzealand-indepth.co.uk/stoat-traps.htm.

Falkland Islands: Penguin News: Seventh article by Deputy Editor John Fowler

One can only hope for a new realistic perspective.......

Get out of the water!!

I always wanted to say that, just like Chief Brody in Jaws.

I just picked up this BBC story about a pretty scary sea beast living off the coast of New Zealand:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16834913

Sadly, as they live 7km down in the Kermadec Trench, I can't realistically use this story to frighten my children when they go paddling when we are there on hols next year.  I'll have a good try though.