Team racing on the marine lake in West Kirby, England
A fortnight ago my circulation froze to a standstill on the edge of a marine lake at the team racing nationals in the north west of England.
It was mid-March and I dripped ice from my tangled hair to my toes.
Boxing ring in the Oxford Union
What do we think about boxing? If you’ve ever watched live boxing it will have left its mark.
Garnerin parachutes into London -1802
That was 1802 – a decade over two centuries later the following happens: a huge gossamer balloon floats into the nothing of the stratosphere. Beneath it clings the tiny dot of a capsule, and inside it is an Austrian, Felix Baumgartner, aged 43.
When the balloon reaches 128,000 feet (24 miles) above the Earth, he will step out and drop into the deep.
The Phraser 