Geography and all that Jazz

Autumn's here... The pink footed geese are back - had about 4000 fly over the other night in a mass aerial onslaught of sight and sound, and this week it finally got cold enough to light the fires... Here's a shot of tonight's bad boy - "well in" as my granny used to say... (and still does) - got to love those tiles - one of my favourite bits of my house... Also my copy of Atlas Schmatlas finally appeared... Great fun ! A good Christmas present for the open-minded Geographer in your life (contains some rude words and geographical irreverence...)

Wet! Don't know about where you are, but it's flipping pouring it down in NW Norfolk today. Not that I'm complaining. I'm sat on the settee flipping between the Open Golf and the Tour de France, pottering away on my writing project, and drinking mug after mug of tea with some freshly baked flapjack. Last few days have been very productive in terms of identifying some interesting new web fodder. Let's start with Craig Robinson, who produced the FLIP FLOP FLYIN website, which has a unique style of representing characters from popular culture (more on Cultural Geography later) Later this year, Craig's style is being applied to an exploration of different countries in a new hardback book called ATLAS SCHMATLAS . This is already available on PLAY.COM for pre-order. Here's the front cover: and one of the maps - this one of Antarctica: an Extreme Environment studied by many Pilot GCSE groups. This follows an earlier mapping project looking at the songs of Bruce S...