was complete, beer on ice and dinner on the boil.

The following 8 days on The Playa (as the 1 mile diameter of scorched, white, dusty earth that stages the masses of installations, art cars and of course the centre piece of the event – The Burning Man himself) simply blows my mind. The enormity of scale, the vastness of the landscape, the lawlessness, the danger, the love, stimuli pulsing from all directions, lights, fire, noise, dust, heat and cold. It’s all extreme but during burning season, somehow so normal.Category Archives: Falklands War

After experiencing heavy air raids at San Carlos, and some very brave flying by Argentine pilots, the Task Force commanders devised a new tactic to try and give early warning of air raids, and also to shoot down offending aircraft before they got close to the vulnerable landing ships or the carriers out to sea.

HMS Coventry – a Type 42 Destroyer – and HMS Broadsword -a Type 22 Frigate – were paired up and stationed north of Pebble Island, ‘up threat’ as a radar picket and trap for Argentine aircraft heading for San Carlos. Coventry was armed with Sea Dart, a medium-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon. Broadsword had the new Sea Wolf system, more ideal for close range work. The idea was that Broadsword could