After nearly two decades of campaigning, political wrangling, and public debate, Taijiang eventually became Taiwan's eighth national park, extending from as far north as the salt pans at Cigu to the southern wetlands at Sicao.

“I don't understand this whatchamacallit. The way it wraps all the way around. Wouldn't it be simpler if it went straight up? Hey, hand me that pinchy thing with the zapper on one end.

David Burns, 40, has sidonglobophobia – a fear of cotton wool.

I bruised my shin th' other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence