The Ventilator – Page 2 – Incorporating The Ranger's Blog

Perhaps sport isn’t simply a load of balls?

As I write, the whistle peeps to start the women’s football world cup final. With their incredible successes on the

Happy Stoptober! In the mid-1950s smoking was ubiquitous: cheap, legal and socially acceptable – the habit of eighty percent of

I lost a bunch of keys this week. The ancient technology of locks and keys has kept buildings and belongings

This winter the government introduced a price cap of £2 on single bus fares to help with its cost of

Back in spring 2019, horrified by the unimaginable loss of invertebrate biomass, I wrote in praise of minibeasts, and their

I’m not usually one for holidaying abroad; climate emergency guilt clipping my wings before they’ve even fully fledged. But, last

I’ve had various costumes in my time; from my days as a teenage punk to being a Mötley glam rocker,

This winter the government introduced a price cap of £2 on single bus fares to help with its cost of

“Yer’ll need inoculations – and a passpor’!”, so goes that hoary leg-pull with which caulkheads tease prospective visitors to the

I heard them before I saw them. Shrieks of excited children pierced the woodland air as I squelched my way