Described by Carl Zimmer as "one of my favorite wastes of time", The End Of The Pier Show is the online scratching post of Nature Editor, Norfolk resident and sometime "garage-band monster" Henry Gee and his amazing unicycling girrafes.
Be still my beating heart. I’ve had to go and have a lie down in a darkened room following exposure to this BBC Online story about a windmill whose headline reads
Lack of wind stops sails turning
And there was I, thinking that it was the Hand of God. Funny old world, eh?
Last updated: Friday, 05 Sep 2008 - 14:31 UTC
© 2008 Nature Publishing Group
I always thought these things run on electricity.
Here’s another seasonal story from Norfolk, for your greater reading pleasure.