I want to go like Tommy Cooper: hit the deck while everyone's laughing. Just like that. (View Post)

A newly-appointed minister arrives in a department responsible for a subject to which they've never given a moment's thought. "I have to be seen to be doing something," they cry. "No p… (View Post)

Civil twilight until 4.55, marine twilight until 5.25 and astronomical twilight until 5.55. - Your crepuscular correspondent. (edited to correct simple arithmetic!) (View Post)

I was perusing Lincolnshire in Samuel Simpson's The Agreeable Historian (1746) this afternoon and stumbled by chance upon the German Ocean: (View Post)

Yes, Senecio is Linnean. The boring story behind the Oxford sub-species is that an alpine variety was preserved at the Botanical Garden for research but escaped and started colonising our green and p… (View Post)