This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains. Sinc...
Mary, the owner of Goytre View B&B near Pandy, was the most interesting person I met on the hike. An active 84 years young eccentric with a mild Welsh accent, she gave me lifts to a haunted pub and back, the Skirrid Inn, while honking at every house en-route, and almost veering in...
Yes there is certainly validity to the argument that a nation who builds a nuclear reactor could also build a bomb. To be sure the by products of nuclear technology can be weaponized. These materials could also fall into the hands of terrorist. Although, given the relativepaucity of securitya...
‘out of season’, then rarely is gorse not in flower, which is largely true. Although it blossoms more prolifically in some months than in others, it is usually to be found somewhere along a walk, bringing a burst of welcome sunshine gold to the dullest January day. Although cold days...
feels like normal Welsh weather . This slowed down our operations a bit, but you can always use a fog turn to prepare for something more exciting. When we tallied up the points after a bit more than an hour, I realized that my surveyer would only get a single point for reaching Half...
Nestled into one of Hay Street’s gorgeous heritage-listed character buildings, you’ll be transported into another era of decadence and sophistication whilst wandering throughSolid Gold’sstunning opulent showroom. As their name suggests, they mean business when it comes to diamonds, and source some...
If I climb up a short way behind this gravity-defying pile of stones in the Welsh mountains that I now call home, I can view a dozen lofty peaks three times higher than the eminences of Barr Beacon and Castle Ring, which were the most elevated points in my childhood landscape of South...
Money is like an eel in the hand —Welsh proverb Money is like a sixth sense, and you can’t make use of the other five without it —W. Somerset Maugham,New York Times Magazine,October 18, 1958 Public money is like holy water: every one helps himself to it —Italian proverb ...
But without the search, nothing that isn’t already familiar will ever be found. I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just seriously good) books out there in the ...
30, 31 Existing CENP-E inhibitors can be subdivided into two categories: (i) ATPase antagonist of the motor domain or (ii) farnesyl transferase inhibitors (FTIs). Hindering the ATPase activity of the CENP-E motor domain stabilizes it with ADP, resulting in CENP-E being tightly bound to the...