When in doubt, resort to animation.

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.