Outdoor Activities // Water // Canoeing & Kayaking // The Perfect Day - Kayaking

You have just landed on that perfect golden beach with the warm glow of a setting sun on your back. As you carry your sea kayak that short distance to your waiting car you reflect back on a day which has given you seals, bird life, sea stacks, arches, lunch on a deserted island and sunshine all day. It has been another one of those perfect days out in your sea kayak.
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Outdoor Activities // Mountains // Biking // Tips for handling the hills

As the popularity of mountain biking has soared, so, too, has the risk of injury. But don"t let that intimidate you.
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Outdoor Activities // Mountains // Biking // Biking safely: Got your helmet?

It"s uncomfortable. It"s hot. It"s annoying. These are some of the most common reasons given when people explain why they don"t wear a bicycle helmet. Other popular excuses include: "I don"t need one" or "I don"t own one." Wearing a helmet can save your life. Unfortunately, most people don"t seem to care.
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Outdoor Activities // Earth // Billiards // Equipment // Billiard Equipment Development

The development of the various forms and families of billiards owes much to changes and improvements to the equipment used. This applies to the balls, the maces or cues, the surface of the table and the side cushions in particular. Without radical improvements to all pieces of equipment used in the game, none of the modern variations of Billiards could exist.
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Creative Hobbies // Handmade quilts

In olden days women did not make quilts for pleasure, they made them out of neccessity. Quilts that originally began as being servicable later ended up being works of art that were dutifully passed down from generation to generation, a sense of pride following each quilt.
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Outdoor Activities // Water // Diving

Land is where we human beings are accustomed to being. And because we are here everyday, we have come to like having our feet firmly planted on the ground with our heads up and our hair dry. So why scuba dive when the possibilities on land seem endless?
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Outdoor Activities // Earth // Cricket // Batting: Forward-foot defence // Batting: The Sweep

One of England"s greatest post-war batsmen, the late Denis Compton, was once asked if he"d have gone down the pitch to the leg spin of Shane Warne. "I don"t think so," he replied, "he"s got so many different tricks and he"d have seen me coming. I"d see how I got on sweeping him."
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