If you don’t know Yoon Eun Hye than you’ve been living under a rock or somewhere other than Asia.

I’m not usually an early riser. But when a morning drive through one of South Africa’s beautiful game reserves beckons, I’m the first one up. Forget the worm – this bird wants to catch an elephant, or a rhino, or even a hyena.

There’s always that one photo that brings back a figurative sea of memories: clear blue waters, a cool breeze and something faintly prehistoric.

When Bart Simpson is stranded on a deserted island in season nine of the Simpsons, he naively asks whiz-kid Martin Prince to make a radio and Nintendo out of coconuts. Impossible? Maybe. But whilst the versatility of the coconut may not extend to electronics, this remarkable fruit is able to provide for just about anything else, particularly in the Philippines.