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‘Monkey Girl’ enters Guinness World Record
Journalists have a warped sense of humour, there’s no denying that. It’s also another quality that me and the Northerner share. Hacks very often see and experience things that a lot of the general public don’t and maybe that’s our way of processing the absurd; scary and downright shocking. Sometimes if I’ve done a particularly harrowing […]
Get your dirty paws off me…..
February 26, 2011
When I was growing up comic books were all the rage – Marvel; The Dandy and The Beano. I remember my brother collecting the Asterix series and although I never really got into them, I do remember feeling a deep appreciation for the art work. This very scary but incredible illustration (above) is exactly the sort […]
King Pong
February 25, 2011
The Northerner thinks I have an OCD about hygiene, I like to think it’s an endearing foible. Smelling nice is important to me. On my birthday I was given lots of lovely body and bath stuff; thankfully nobody brought any sticks to the party (see blogpost Hello Dolly!). I love using exotic scented showergels and […]
Female Empowerment
February 24, 2011
Girl Power is a phrase that was banded about in the mid 1990’s by the phenomenally successful pop quintet, Spice Girls. Females of all ages were no longer tarred with the same brush as the ‘burn-your-bra’ feminists of the past; but given a new perspective in mainstream media. The phrase was so popular that the […]
A King among men (and other primates)
February 22, 2011
This infant’s arrival didn’t have the pomp that most royalty receive, but the latest West Country’s edition born at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is by no means any less important. It’s a King Colobus monkey (Colobus polykomos) also known as the Western Black-and-white Colobus. These monkeys are endangered and officially rated as vulnerable by the International Union for […]
97% Human, primates feature in exhibition Down Under
February 22, 2011
These beautiful primate portraits are part of a project called 97% Human, which were taken at Melbourne Zoo by photographer Arthur Xanthopoulos. He wanted to bring out the human side to these animals (anthropomorphism). Arthur was originally inspired by primate documentaries, including BBC productions narrated by Sir David Attenborough, where the theme […]
Chunky-monkey
February 21, 2011
As a freelancer and a part-time student it would be very easy for me to morph into a couch potato. But I know only too well, that an expanding waistline is unlikely to bring more on-screen work, just additional woes about health issues and lots of ribbing from friends and family. So, three times a […]
Gorilla cupcake?
February 20, 2011
What is it about cupcakes that has people going ga-ga? Everywhere I look there are recipes in magazines; books and blogs dedicated to the art of making them; coffee shops filled with ladies-who-lunch chowing down on them; there’s an episode in Sex in The City where Carrie and Miranda dissect their love lives over sponge and buttercream and […]
Jungle fever given the all clear
February 18, 2011
This weekend Longleat Safari Park’s monkey enclosure, is due to open after almost two years of being shut, following the discovery of a rare virus that’s fatal to humans. In March 2008, one of the primates at the Wiltshire park was found to have a strain of herpes virus. A routine blood test found a […]
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