There is a small object that lines a great many old roads and is almost never looked at: a short stone or cast-iron post at the verge, carrying a name…
There is a type of building standing in fields, farmyards and the grounds of old houses that most people pass without knowing what it was for.
It is frequently round…
There is a question about weathervanes that catches almost everybody out, and it concerns which way the pointer faces.
The natural assumption is that the arrow shows where the wind…
For most of the history of keeping bees, getting honey meant damaging the colony that produced it.
Bees build comb attached to whatever surfaces are available, fused to the walls…
There is an assumption about mosaic that treats it as decoration applied to a finished surface — small pieces stuck onto a floor or a wall, like tiles.
That is…
There is a well-documented behaviour in animals that explains the entire history of trying to keep birds off crops, and it is almost never mentioned in that context.
The behaviour…