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

PETER FROST investigates the poaching and eating of century-old tortoises in the Galapagos Islands

It is three in the morning and PETER FROST is awaken by a truly Wagnerian thunderstorm — it turns out to be the mother of scores of shitstorms all around Britain’s coast

Stories of a strange creature in Loch Ness never go away. Is there any truth in them? A sceptical PETER FROST investigates

Warning — today’s ramblings discuss live maggots used in weird medical and agricultural practices, so perhaps best not read while you are eating, says PETER FROST

Avian flu is having a devastating effect on many of Britain’s seabird colonies on Scottish islands, the coastal cliffs of Scotland and the north of England — and now the great skua, or bonxie, is under threat, reports PETER FROST

PETER FROST remembers Eddie Adams, a friend and comrade for 60 years who died last month

All kinds of vintage transports can make for a good day out or trip away. PETER FROST visits some of the less predictable, really special, transport experiences

PETER FROST raises a glass to English, Welsh and Scottish vineyards this English Wine Week

PETER FROST has been to Poole harbour to welcome some returning, if scruffy, strangers

PETER FROST looks at the woman at the head of the richest and most dysfunctional family in the land

PETER FROST has been shopping for Big Cock shrimp paste and Thai Boy paste too. What strange goings on are happening in Northamptonshire’s woods?

PETER FROST looks at the twin historical stories of why we are celebrating May Day today

PETER FROST takes a look at some coast and country deaths that you might have missed

PETER FROST looks at butterflies, not just beautiful but also highly sensitive indicators of the health of our environment

PETER FROST says despite what you may have heard, size really does matter

The few sunny days between the rain and snow have seen some British snakes basking. PETER FROST takes a look at these reptiles’ world

In his last ever (ahem) column, PETER FROST says goodbye to his many regular followers

PETER FROST reflects on our rapidly diminishing population of one of his favourite British wild mammals

PETER FROST confesses to perverse doings in his youth – but not with John, Paul, George or Ringo

PETER FROST says that the lack of action on Jimmy Carr’s racist anti-Roma outpourings just demonstrate how one racism is considered much more acceptable than others

At the start of a new month, PETER FROST looks at an animal forever connected with that month – the mad March hare

It's not Labour who should face opprobrium — the sick celebrity's reign of terror was enabled by top Tories who saw him as a political ally and gave him access to hospitals and prisons where he would abuse his victims, writes PETER FROST

PETER FROST takes a walk in the woods and both marvels at and worries about trees

PETER FROST introduces a pair of bird lovers and some of the birds they keep at home

Wrens were often ritually slaughtered at the turn of the year. PETER FROST unravels the politics and mystery of these tiny but amazing birds

PETER FROST fills in some details of a group of remarkable working-class heroines celebrated this week

Despite climate change and pollution, it was a bumper year for returning wildlife in and around Britain's seas — PETER FROST gets his feet wet in this review of Britain’s marine scene

PETER FROST has been helping on a Roman dig near his Northamptonshire home, while nearby one of the area's biggest Roman settlements sees the light of day after 2,000 years

PETER FROST introduces a new British species – the anti-vaxxers – and discovers that many have unsavoury right-wing views

Some good news and some bad news from the countryside. PETER FROST weighs up the last 12 months

A miscellany of seasonal countryside stories from PETER FROST

PETER FROST hopes he and you may never be too grown-up to search the skies on Christmas Eve

PETER FROST spots some porcine problems in our food supply chain

PETER FROST remembers snowmen and snowball fights before climate catastrophe

PETER FROST takes a stroll alongside the Thames to see what manner of beasts are sharing the river with us

PETER FROST looks a bit deeper into the troubled waters left behind by the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow

PETER FROST explains the history of that bright, evocative flower, the poppy

PETER FROST got close and intimate with Abigail's bees and here's what he learned about their government, labour relations and defence structures

The rodent population has boomed thanks to the nesting and breeding spaces afforded to it during the pandemic. But what do we know — and what can be done — about rats, the most problematic of the mini-mammal gang? PETER FROST investigates

PETER FROST takes a look at the mysterious world of fungi – from fairy rings to curious ways of getting high

PETER FROST researches around the world of eight-legged arachnids on the web and introduces a working-class hero

PETER FROST asks who let the dogs out, and many other species as well

PETER FROST goes in search of a plague or two and ventures down memory lane to his churchgoing youth

PETER FROST finds travellers are even more at risk from the coronavirus than the rest of us — but not enough is being done to monitor and address the impact of Covid on their communities

PETER FROST pops down to his local chippy but finds more than his usual cod 'n chips are on the menu

PETER FROST sticks his trunk, his fins and his paws into the dirty business of keeping wild animals in captivity

The Tories have proposed reintroducing wild beavers to English rivers. About time, says PETER FROST