A friend with whom Portsmouth-based writer and planetary modeller David Angus travelled around Europe wished to go to Auschwitz. This is David’s account of that troubling experience. Another Jewish friend, Ric, compared the Ian Brady/Myra [… read more ]
Writer and planetary modeller David Angus shares a feline story of deception and aggression. Spring had arrived and the warmth of late March brought the trees out in bloom, then cold winds in April inhibited [… read more ]
From 1974 to 1978, Gosport-based writer and planetary modeller David Angus lived in South Africa. Here he shares the letters he wrote to his mother relating his experiences of hard labour, riots and the appalling [… read more ]
Travel writer and planetary modeller David Angus recalls a childhood excursion to the south coast that helped shape a lifelong fascination for maps and their curious symbolism. Holidays. Well, in a way infancy like retirement [… read more ]
By David Angus. Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Brainwashed shalt thou be. Calloused. Dumbed down. Erased of courage and creative thought. Fearful otherwise. Gravity, debt pressing down on you like gravity. Home [… read more ]
By David Angus Feeling blue? Feeling underrated? Losing your cool? Manipulated? Disparaged by fools? Then do what I do. Escape into your dreams Get into your fantasies Away from overrated reality Reality TV, office [… read more ]
Gosport-based writer, adventurer and planetary modeller, David Angus, has found some therapeutic benefits to writing about the current crisis and imagining it as a letter to his late parents. Dear Mum and Dad, Well, things [… read more ]
A paradise, a sanctuary to an amazing variety of fauna and flora found nowhere else in the world. It is blessed with awesome landscapes and its steeply sloped mountains are canopied by virgin forests. This [… read more ]
As a Portsmouth-based planetary modeller, David Angus hand-makes representations of the planets and their terrains. In 2001, a childhood dream came true: he was asked to work with the BBC on their Dinosaur Island show. Long ago [… read more ]
Starring James Mason as Professor Lidenbrock, the 1959 film of the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth enthralled a young boy named David Angus, who is now a Portsmouth-based travel writer and [… read more ]
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