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Before you invest in any equipment, buy a copy of Steve Richards' excellent "Making Every Photon Count". It'll help you to understand what you need and why. I'd always recommend a decent mono camera and filter wheel rather than a one shot colour - use of a filter wheel will let you experiment...

This site sells foam block and sheet and has a large assortment

Tide times vary every day. You can find the low'high tide times plus the actual tide height at this site run by the UK Hydrographic Office. Be careful around estuarys, large tidal sand/mud flats and bays or cliff locations only accessible at low tides - incoming tides can be deceptively fast.

What an amazing find - he's going to have to go some to top that one! :)

You can buy rolls of self adhesive flocking material from astronomy sites to overcome that. It's useful stuff.

Proper bread pudding for me. :D

We have the following in the house at the moment: Stinking Bishop Cambus O'May Lincolnshire Poacher Cashel Blue I've just finished off a very nice piece of truffled brie too. Orkney cheddar is pap by the way. :p

A Mars mission is on the cards in the next 20-30 years I'd say - that's a return mission though, not any form of colonisation. NASA have been looking at Alcubierre's equations for a faster than light drive. It's theoretically possible but there are a few issues, the main one being that we...

Hey Joe was originally recorded by Tim Rose but made famous by Hendrix.

I use a Spyderco sharpener for my knives - it puts a superb edge on them :)

I use a Black Rapid RS-7. It's very comfortable even walking around all day with my 150-500 lens attached. They're not cheap but they're well worth the layout :)

It's a piece of trick art. The eyes are painted ambiguously so that they can appear either open or closed depending on how the picture is viewed. There's a hint of iris and pupil painted into the tops of the eyes, and the bottoms portray closed lids.

I took this from my front garden in March this year :p

Clear sky is looking likely but dark? No chance.

Laying on your side probably had quite a lot to do with it but whatever it was, if it sorted a problem out then result for you. They are dangerous though, and you can test their lack of efficacy quite easily by putting a pile of fluff or something similarly light on a flat surface and lighting...