Apparently the British name for them is Cowberry, because cows love to eat them. Although I am not aware they're common outside scatterings in Scotland, anyhow? Up here, they are everywhere, and… (View Post)

Not if some high profile Dems are in there. And if Trump knew this, he may have thought he could refer to them with impunity (View Post)

At the moment I am in a place called Hetta, but will be working my way south. Southern Finland is flat with trees (a peneplain ground flat by an ice sheet, for those of us who remember our geography … (View Post)

So it was finally time to say goodbye to sun-drenched Norway, and move on to Lapland, the Realm of the Insects. Where currently it is warmer still. Although only slightly to the south, while Tromso h… (View Post)

I would be wary of using countryside pubs as a barometer of opinion. You might just as well go stand on Primrose Hill. (View Post)