A warning. Today is the thirteenth day (seezdahbehdah) after Nowrooz, the Iranian New Year. The end of two weeks of celebration. And Iranians, being as superstitious as the next man, believe that it is unlucky to stay indoors. So if London’s parks are full of …
Image courtesy of Dan Hershman under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. 99. Fountain of Eels! Whilst trawling through several old, decrepit and dusty books for research, I happened upon Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural History from the late 1800s. In it he mentions a tale that …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 44. Neighbours So do you talk to your neighbours? Some of us do, some of us don’t. Some of us are polite but wouldn’t engage in …
