Prose and Passion

Chinese violins of the Lark and Skylark brands have a terrible reputation - even though they're probably not all bad. Hence they are goi...

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 19 Here's a rare group portrait reuniting all three kids from the Dörndorf bakery...

I have written a few features already about the rising tide of plastic waste engulfing our planet. What's new this time is that the micr...

Alchemy is of course a fascinating subject but also a frustrating one, and I always end up dazed and confused when I try to get into the min...

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 18 I love the hat that Richard the young chemist is wearing in some photos from his stu...

In last week's Every picture story I mentioned the songbook that I inherited from my great aunt Esther. I am not sure whether the Herma...

I knew about orca females enjoying a post-reproductive lifespan (ie going through menopause), but in recent years the number of non-human ma...

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 17 last update: 11.4.2024 Let's go back to the Krefeld Clan - the 13 children...

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 16 During the first half of World War II, Peter the customs officer was luck...

Many of us may envy the birds that migrate to warmer climate zones in winter. We may even naively assume that their expertise in long-haul t...

Just two days after I posted about the recorder family , a long-awaited email came in telling me that the two recorders I had ordered back i...

Every picture tells a story , season 3, picture 15 (season 3 now carrying on after a break due to the 100 years of cellotude series): ...