Um, don’t forget Hawaii and the illegal overthrow of a kingdom ....

Ha! I’m an archaeologist and children always ask the grossest questions when they come on site visits. So I tell them about the time I excavated a coprolite, and that when you dig a cess pit the cess has a wonderfully silky feel between your fingers, and that excavating skeletons with bits of flesh and hair still on…

Is this real or is this edited? I honestly can’t tell.

Attila, I’m going to be a pedant here, but if you quote something, in inverted commas, the journalistic convention is **you don’t change anything.** Because if you do, then you are implying that person said or wrote something that they did not.

Do you know the poem ‘When I am Old’ by Jenny Joseph? It sounds like just the poem for you:

It’s the song of the male blackbird (Turdus merula) at normal speed. I can hear one singing just like this right outside my window, right now.

That’s the song of a male blackbird (Turdus merula). Don’t know if that has any significance ...