Have you been paying attention? PETER FROST has a few tricky questions from his recent Ramblings

PETER FROST prepares for the festive season

PETER FROST is planning a seasonal outing. Let’s hope he doesn’t make a clown of himself

With avian flu devastating our bird populations both wild and commercial, PETER FROST looks at feathered friends large and small

Is the future of the human race in danger from lack of sperm? PETER FROST reads a worrying new report

In more misogynistic times it was said ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’ — PETER FROST proposes a new version: teach a family to fish and they will eat well. At least until pollution, plastic debris, global warming, floods, droughts and overfishing end it all

PETER FROST discovers a most obscene so-called sport – bare-knuckle fights against tigers

PETER FROST opens a parcel and discoverers a bunch of flowers that need to be distributed to friends and comrades

PETER FROST roots through the huge piles of flowers appearing all over our streets and finds a few fragrant but fascinating facts

Many of our largest native British species have become extinct over the centuries. PETER FROST asks if it’s time to bring some of them back

PETER FROST looks at the many curious animals that Charles Darwin didn’t just study but also cooked and ate — and the modern practice of scientists eating their research subjects

PETER FROST reports on the latest news from Tasmania, Australia, where this week more than 200 pilot whales came ashore in yet another mysterious mass stranding of these fascinating and often suicidal creatures