Animals Named After People
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Did you know there is a parasitic wasp named after Shakira?
What about the soldier fly named after RuPaul?
Learn about these animals, and more, in this horrendously educational post!
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A Supermarket Misadventure
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Here’s a story about the supermarket.
And to think some people say that blogs have no value to society!
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Terrible Christmas Gifts
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The opposite of a gift guide - the most terrible Christmas gifts you could buy.
Read MoreMarooned On An Island Of My Own House: Is That Essential?
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You say essential, I say bibshorts. Join me and discover some really unnecessary (or are they?) products you can buy during a nationwide lockdown.
Read MoreMarooned On An Island Of My Own House: More Important Questions
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Standards: Do We Even Have Them Anymore? And other Important Lockdown Questions
Read MoreMarooned On An Island Of My Own House: Important Questions
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Some Important Questions about Rules and Etiquette, in these Uncertain Times.
Read MoreMarooned On An Island Of My Own House: Working From Home
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An unnecessary postcard from suburban quarantine
Read MoreMarooned On An Island Of My Own House: What Dog Are You?
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The first in a series of increasingly chaotic lockdown rambles.
Read MoreIn Which the Author Does a Thing
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And the Thing was Starting A Business. Also, if that’s not of interest, I learnt a very good fact about butterflies.
Read MoreThis Wasn't Meant to be about Mutants
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This was meant to be a Life Update, but then I went on about B-grade mutant horror movies instead.
Read MoreQuestionable Mother's Day Gifts
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Looking for a Mother’s Day gift? You’re in luck, I have curated some terrible ones.
Read More17 Excellent Penguin Facts
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Did you know there is a Brigadier in the Norwegian Kings’ Guard who is also a penguin?
Read MoreThree Misunderstandings
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We all get the wrong end of the stick sometimes. And sometimes the wrong end is also the amusing end.
Read MoreIn Praise of the Vegetable Collective
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or, “Why Did I Grow So Many Feijoas, And Who Will Possibly Eat Them”
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Adventures on the Silk Road
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My mother travelled the Silk Road. Here are some of her stories.
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