For many years, environmental catastrophe has been discounted as myth or propaganda. However, the science is now proven. Tides are rising and storms are brewing. Soon, the oil must run out... In a suburban home on the outskirts of Milton Keynes, a small family is fraying at the seams, and on the brink of a collapse of their own. Imprisoned by grief, Arnold witnesses the inexorable downwards spiral of his neighbourhood on television, from the confines of his living room. Fifty years on, Noah - a child in our times - is thrust into a dense, compact Britain he hardly recognizes, adrift in a society in the throes of transformation. Years later, the experiment falters and Nature threatens to take over entirely. Noah's daughter Eve faces unimaginable consequences and her will to survive is tested to its limits... THE FALL OF MAN begins in the Britain of today. Three successive generations struggle to exist in a future rife with change. Their story chronicles a series of cataclysmic, global events, from the perspective of an all-too-human family.

This study explored the experience of what it is to be a gay man and to live in a rural community. The findings of this study show that these men were able to live in rural locations by effectively employing a diverse range of strategies to both combat the difficulties of rural life and to enhance its advantages. The bush was the place in which these men could find themselves, be themselves and also find others like themselves. This book documents a largely unreported aptitude and adeptness by rural gay men to live contented lives in rural areas. It suggests that their close affinity with place gives them a sense of belonging. It also suggests that these men had the capacity for agency - the individual's ability to exert autonomy over his life - that drove their determination to control and improve their own lives and live them the way they chose. This is a perspective that has been untold in previous narratives of rural gay men. That gay men can live fulfilled lives in the very places they are too often said to have fled evokes an innovative understanding of what it is to be gay in the bush.

In 1999, BGO released Get on Down With Bobby Bland/Reflections in Blue, which contained two complete albums -- Get on Down With Bobby Bland (1975, originally released on ABC) and Reflections in Blue (1977, originally released on ABC) -- by Bobby Bland on one compact disc. ~ Jason Birchmeier