Miscellanea
Apples have a somewhat ominous reputation, no? not to be plucked, or Of Discord: is this quite such a cause for rejoicing? New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner: Arbury said it was “a very interesting apple”. It is clearly not a planted tree, but a seedling that could be a cross between a cultivated apple and a wild Malus sylvestris, a European crab apple, he said. “It tastes quite good. It’s a cooking apple or dual purpose, you can eat it, it’s got a bit of acidity but it’s got some flavour, and some tannin, which is what you have in cider apples,” he said, adding it could be used with other apples for cider. He said most chance apple trees were from Bramley’s Seedling cooking apples grown in gardens or orchards, or sometimes from supermarket apples thrown out of car windows and now growing alongside roads. But he said the apples sent by Thomas came from a tree that could be 100 years old or more and was not the result of a dropped modern supermarket apple. Thomas admitted he may be biased, but said he thought the apples tasted great. “Tart but not wincingly-so, and with enough sweetness to eat raw … They speak of the terrain of Wiltshire; unimproved chalk grassland and chalk streams.,” he added.
With perhaps just a hint of 'Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole'/ponceyness alert
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The name change here suggests to me that they have not heard of Tallulah Bankhead's famous comment to Norman Mailer, apropos of his 4-letter word substitution in The Naked and the Dead: Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name. WTF.
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About bloody time we say: 'It'll upset a few fellows': Royal Society adds Jocelyn Bell Burnell portrait: Until 1945 the Royal Society’s art collection only contained one woman - a bust of the Scottish scientist Mary Somerville.
I thought they had also had one of Caroline Herschel? what happened to it, if so? And are there portraits of Kathleen Lonsdale and Marjorie Stephenson? (I am chuffed to note that it was Naomi Mitchison's brother Jack who finally shook up the Royal Society on this issue!) and if not, why not?
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I like wombatts I cannot lie: and they GLOW IN THE DARK: Biofluorescent Australian mammals and marsupials take scientists by surprise in accidental discovery.
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