Curiosity Box

The first cabinets of curiosities in the eighteenth century were not cabinets at all. They were rooms full of cabinets

Now is the time that seashells start appearing on windowsills as a reminder of trips to the beach in the

When I give talks about my writing I am always asked "Where do you get your ideas from?" As ideas

"Have you any signs of a scientist?" This is a question I ask in the introduction in one of my

Last week's curiosity was a plant called montbretia. Each swelling is called a corm. A corm is an underground stem.

Last weeks curiosity has opened up, did you guess what it was? Does this third picture help you answer? It's

The last curiosity I posted was a fossilised leaf. This week, I've collected some fruits from a tree near my

Last week's curiosity was a fossilised fish. I have another fossil for you this week, can you guess what it

Last week's curiosity was part of the trunk of a fossilised monkey puzzle tree. It's about 180 million years old

Last week's curiosity was the fossilised tooth of a baby Woolly Mammoth. It is about 20,000 years old and was