Similar to a cast a doctor wraps around a broken leg, a field jacket keeps fossils from moving or breaking and protects them during transport.

In ancient Greek a periplous entailed the extended navigation of coasts and description of such journeys; its interminable lists of land- and sea-marks, anchorages and travel times, […] were a means of creating what Braudel […] called maps made of memories laid end to end.

A pot of black coffee ought to sober him up.

A HIGH Nellie bike once used by Irish rock icon Phil Lynott is being lovingly restored by a group of Carlovians, who are hoping to auction it to raise funds for a local cancer support group. Philomena Lynott found her much-loved 1930s bicycle rusting away in the garden shed and decided to put it to better use.