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Sunflowers turn their heads to follow the sun. One of the most striking sights in the countryside is a field of yellow sunflowers whose...

BBC Radio 4 Start the Week "Bees - Culture and Survival" Start the Week is one of my favourite podcasts... the topics are so varied and...

Persuasion was Austen's last completed novel, published in 1816 and featuring a heroine who has rejected her true love when her family...

When flowers take on a meaning, to me at least it can seem sentimental and Victorian. I suppose the Victorians were a bit mealy-mouthed...

Everyone knows magic isn’t real. Alien invaders? Ha! Yet, unless one skeptic changes her mind, Earth and her life will meet a swift end....