Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The One in Which David Attenborough Appears in My Local S-Market

The BBC has recently released, in the vein of legendary nature documentaries such as Life on Earth and the Living Planet, their latest production, Human Planet, which promises to take viewers "to the most remote locations on Earth to find stories about man's remarkable relationship with the natural world."  I happened to watch a clip from the show, one in which a reindeer herder presumably from somewhere in Lapland has the daunting task of driving her herd across a wide river making sure one of them doesn't panic and swim back to shore thus setting off a mass retreat that would spell disaster for all of their lives.  It was remarkable, but was made more personally remarkable by the fact that they were filming in a place not too far away from here, both geographically and climactically (is that even a word?  Spell check says no).  Which got me thinking that I really AM living in one of the most remote locations on Earth.  I'm living in nature documentary-worthy territory.  The BBC said so.  So maybe they'd be interested in doing a bit the next time I have to cycle to the grocery store when it's 20 below.

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