China’s largest wholesale market for chilli – China Chilli Park — is located in the town.
Watch Out for Jimson Weed!
The name “Jimson” is a corruption of Jamestown in Virginia, where it put two colonists in a “frantick condition” for eleven days where they turned into fools.
Sighting of the Month: White-Faced Ibis
The ibis represented the god Thoth, god of wisdom, knowledge and writing, and was considered the herald of the Nile flooding.
Review of Barons of the Sea
It tells the story of how American clipper ships—the fastest ships on the ocean—made obscenely huge fortunes for their owners using money from the opium trade to buy luxury goods in China—silks, teas, and porcelain—and sell them in America.
Wildflowers or Weeds?
When weeds have pretty flowers, can they be so cavalierly dissed? I don’t think so.