Bystander

Posts

• Recalling a stinker of a movie
• The wrong St Valentine’s day
• Snowdrop hope for dementia sufferers
• So Guinness really is good for you
• Marking a biodisaster in 2010
• The mince pie in history, myth and law
• Lambeth’s 17th century plant hunters
• Who wrote that Petronius quote?
• The actress and the torpedo
• Our plethora of patron saints
• A day for minding our languages
• A wound healer and a cheese preserver
• Diagnosis to the sound of music
• The problem with cloppy doggerel
• The pharmacist who influenced Darwin
• 4 July not true Independence Day
• Died in the cause of research
• An early expert in the art of marketing
• Tribute to “Onlooker”
• When the balloon goes up, consider the turtle
• Was Pitt the Younger poisoned by his port?