“Imagine, if you will, lying in the dark alone in a little tent, nothing but a few microns of trembling nylon between you and the chill night air, listening to a 400-pound bear moving around your campsite. Imagine its quiet grunts and mysterious snufflings, the clatter of upended cookware and sounds of moist gnawings, the pad of its feet and the heaviness of its breath, the singing brush of its haunch along your tent side. Imagine the hot flood of adrenaline, that unwelcome tingling in the back of your arms, at the sudden rough bump of its snout against the foot of your tent, the alarming wild wobble of your frail shell as it roots through your backpack that you left casually propped by the entrance—with, you suddenly recall, a Snickers in the pouch. Bears adore Snickers, you’ve heard.”
—Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
This website is full of wonderful snippets...
www.quotenik.com
Saturday 25 September 2010
Friday 17 September 2010
oh comely magazine
http://www.ohcomely.co.uk/
Illustrationy-photography-story-toast orientated magazine.
Tuesday 14 September 2010
treehouse junglehouse
Following the tree house theme... I stumbled upon this radio series on bbc the other day. It's about a fellow who's a professional tree climber and tree house builder. This series follows his progress having been commissioned to build a treehouse in an African rainforest for a wildlife film crew who will be filming monkeys up there. Shame I just realised that the first episode has gone, but to fill you in: he finds the perfect tree, climbs it to suss it out, then gets attacked by a swarm of bees and gets stung on his face while having to climb down.. so he has to find another tree, obviously.
Its called James and the Giant Tree House
Its called James and the Giant Tree House
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