Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 10, 2016

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Five badly stuffed animals at Ireland’s Natural History Museum

5x5 Known to Dubliners as the Dead Zoo, the Natural History wing is an unexpected treat if you’ve already visited the wonderful displays of Irish archaeology elsewhere in the National Museum of Ireland. Brave the stone…

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 26, 2016

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Five great Sylvi memories for our wedding anniversary

5x5 Today is/was/would have been the seventh anniversary of getting hitched to Sylvia Hermann, if she hadn’t been so suddenly taken away from me in 2015. I thought it would be nice to mark the day with five photos of special memories…

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 12, 2016

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Five months of growing a beard

5x5 I’ve been a dabbler in the beard for many years, but three months pottering around the other side of the world was the perfect opportunity to let my facial hair grow out. Here’s how the first five months panned out.

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 17, 2016

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My five life-changing products of the past five decades

5x5 Continuing my alliterative crusade to theme 5x5, I’ve decided to inaugurate Wonder Wednesday with a list of life-changing products through the four-and-a-bit decades I’ve survived. It’s inspired by a addictive thread on the UK…

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 22, 2016

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Five things to expect from Monkey Monday

5x5 Having decided to give every day of 5x5 a theme, I thought I’d set a week aside to explain what I’d like to do with each day. Today’s Monkey Monday, so here are few things to look forward to (beyond the fact that I just like monkeys).

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 15, 2016

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Five of Bongo’s travelling companions

5x5 Welcome to 5x5’s first Monkey Monday, dedicated to our simian cousins. We’ll kick off with the would-be overlord of humanity and assassin-for-hire, Bongo, whose recent travels around Australia and Asia saw him encounter a more varied range of companions than a…

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 18, 2016

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Five unexpected things I’ve enjoyed about the Olympics

5x5 I’m not sports fan, save for Formula 1 (even if F1 drivers have to be fit enough to compete in any number of Olympic disciplines), and I certainly wasn’t looking forward to the Olympic Games. Somehow, though, I’ve found myself…

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 19, 2016

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The five-stop Compass Kebab Challenge for London’s Night Tube

5x5 London Underground will start its first regular 24-hour services this weekend, when the Night Tube keeps rolling on the Victoria line and parts of the Central line.

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 31, 2016

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Five incredible exoplanets

5x5 The first planet outside our Solar System was discovered in 1998, although it wasn’t confirmed until after others had been found definitively. To date there are 3,501 confirmed planets in 2,623 planetary systems, including 592 multiple planetary systems, with thousands more…

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Alex Lane in Five by five

Aug 16, 2016

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Five of my bucket list destinations

5x5 I’ve been lucky enough to see some unusual places, from the most northerly point of mainland Europe to Skeleton Coast of Mauritania, and it’s given me a good idea of the places I really want to get to and can’t believe I’ve missed. Here’s five, but it’s by no…

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These were the top 10 stories published by Five by five in August of 2016. You can also dive into daily archives for August of 2016 by using the calendar at the top of this page.