Category Archives: uk

Northern Lights

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

Just to share this image of the Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire (the highest pub in Britain) and the Aurora Borealis, due to the Solar Flare which also permanently disabled my toaster earlier this afternoon. You might like to look at the Aurora Sky Station Live Camera from Sweden, which is producing some amazing [...]

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Searching, for that something that I’ll never find…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 24, 2012

(with apologies to China Black) Just occasionally, I check to see what serach terms have been used to find 6000 miles… over the last few weeks. They’re usually pretty obvious – this time there was a lot of stuff about load-shedding, that concert “next year”, the inevitable weeing on your bougainvillea and, as ever, some [...]

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CSI lies

By 6000 | 6000 | January 18, 2012

I’m hugely busy and I note that James still has’t published anything beyond his salad, so I’m just going to share this article I read in the Grauniad last night on “CSI Oxford” – or rather LGC Forensics, the private company who deal with the science side of many of the high profile criminal cases [...]

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London, empty

By 6000 | 6000 | January 8, 2012

On Flickr blog: On Christmas morning IanVisits got up early and took pictures of an almost empty London. And then he wrote about it on his blog: London is never silent, not even at 3am, but on Xmas morning, it is almost silent. The background drone of aircraft approaching Heathrow has gone, and away from main roads, [...]

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Political Soundbite of the Day

By 6000 | 6000 | December 13, 2011

We don’t do politics very often on 6000 miles…, but we are more than happy to share excellent political soundbites like this one whenever they come along: So all the UK is isolated from is an impending disaster: the eurozone will fragment with countries leaving and debt defaults. It is like being as isolated as [...]

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