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)

My relatives in New York had an undocumented central American cleaner for a while. She arrived in a car with two guys who parked outside while she worked. After a couple of hours skivvying they drove… (View Post)

Yes, it's one of those mundane sites (sights?) we pass every day but only notice after someone has painted it. (View Post)

About time we had another Nighthawks thread. (View Post)