Caramelised Pork Salad and…It’s Cold in Antarctica

It’s so cold down there and so much colder than the Arctic.  Colder because Antarctica is surrounded by water but the Arctic is surrounded by land masses.  Antarctica has land underneath it and the Arctic has water and that apparently also makes a big difference.  Antarctica has much stronger winds making it colder and in […]

Humpty Dumpty South Pole Expedition

My great uncle, Douglas Stewart, was a writer.  He wrote a radio play called The Fire on the Snow about Scott’s tragic journey to Antarctica.  I grew up knowing all about this story that had the worst possible outcome but I didn’t ever think I would have a friend, one hundred years later, make that […]