The Guardian
| 10 months ago
I stumbled on it last summer out here in the snakeroot between the fence and the forest. I had no idea what it was that came boiling out of that hidden fissure in a sudden, upturned blizzard of scalding gold, only that its stings were not the...
The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Roman holiday Emperor Augustus named the last month of summer after himself. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images August, the eight month, is the second to be named after a Roman emperor, this time Augustus. He is said to have chosen this month...