A live webcam has been set up to capture a rare Amazonian cactus which is expected to bloom "imminently".
The moonflower, or Strophocactus wittii, is part of the collection at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
The plant is "very rare" in captivity and when it bloomed in February 2021, it was...
I was looking for a story about a team that had gone to measure 'The worlds smallest island' and when they got there and measured it, they were just about to leave when they spotted another island nearby which was even smaller.
I couldn't find that story, but while looking I did discover this...
craggy island
dokdo
islands
japan
just room enough island
kuril islands
lentune island
miniature
rockall
rona
serbia
south korea
st lawrence river
sula sgeir
takeshima
tasmania
the river drina
the solent
the united states
wales
Robert Frost once said "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference."
Have you ever decided to take a different route, maybe one that was obviously less well used, through what was previously familiar territory, and encountered...
There doesn't appear to be a dedicated Lyrids thread. Unless I missed it somehow.
So this year (2022) we have the Lyrids starting on April 14th and continuing through to the 30th, peaking on the 22nd.
We also apparently have a 'pink moon' on April 16th.
Named not because it appears pink (it...
The Orionids meteor shower peak tonight and tomorrow night (20th and 21st October).
I'm hoping for a break in the clouds tonight but the best time to view them is early morning here in the UK.
"Although the peak will be in the early hours of Thursday morning, after which the meteors will wane...
The TV news in the UK, especially the 'News at Ten' always used to have a "....and finally..." story.
Usually a light-hearted look at something like a dog on a skateboard, or a chap who has created a water-going bicycle, or the 'cheese rolling' contest.
Sometimes these stories would go off down...
NOTE: This trip report has been copied from:
Lost Place?
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/lost-place.66421/
Well I had a nice drive out to Coombe Hill today in the R26.
I can't say for sure if it is the place or not, but it was a nice visit. A lot of what I remember from the...
I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this, but hey-ho....
Some years ago, I'd say when I was about 18-22 (I'm 53 now) I would often go with friends just out driving around (we had CB radios back then so every journey seemed to become an adventure for some reason).
On one particular...
Just saw this on BBC news. Puts me in mind of the mystery gas/smell thing that happened just a little further along the coast a year or two ago.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-49311079
I don't think I have mentioned this before, and I'm not sure if it fits better in another thread elsewhere instead of on it's own but here's a recounting/recollection of a minor odd thing that happened to me many years ago.
I used to live in Hemel Hempstead and one day had driven to nearby...
An interesting piece on The Grave of Lady Anne Grimston has appeared on Journal of the Bizarre.
http://www.bizarrejournal.com/2018/12/the-grave-of-lady-anne-grimston.html
As I live really quite nearby (in Welwyn Garden City) I popped along there today and got some nice new pictures.
It was a...
I wasn't sure where I could put this, so started a new topic, but if it fits elsewhere then I apologise, maybe someone can move it for me.
Basically I found this odd entry in a day-to-a-page 'desk calender' thingy that I got bought for me last christmas.
It's a 'How to survive almost...
Surely this is 'tempting fate' isn't it?
How ironic would it be if they hit an iceberg?
Relatives of some who died on the Titanic are on a voyage to the North Atlantic site where the liner sank, to mark 100 years since the disaster.
MS Balmoral has left Southampton docks, retracing the...
I've just bunged some links here to some vids that are clearly NOT UFOs.
Just in case anyone needs a comparison/reference point, for things that they can't identify.
#1. Plane coming in to land at night.
Not obvious to start with, but as it gets closer, well, you decide...
Whilst reading my latest FT I got to the continued story about PC Alan Godfrey. I wondered if he was still alive so checked his name on Wikipedia.
Well, I was amazed to find that the only reference to him on there was the following;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigmund_Adamski
Now, my...
Dunno if this is the right place to post this, but had to share my despair with someone!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/7471643/Nissan-Leaf-to-be-built-in-UK.html
When I was a kid I (long time ago) I used to see electric cars on Tomorrows World, but they were all a bit rubbish...
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