They are called darning needle cactus by the locals because there's a single sharp thorn for each areole. It's a thin, ropey cholla that nobody grows much anymore. But I have many of them here in the ...

When I was a little kid we called them “darning needles,” and lived in heart-stopping fear that they’d sew our lips shut if one of them ever landed on us. I mean, we were absolutely petrified of the ...

IRISH TIMES ODDITIES: A needle's journey:An account of a broken needle, which travelled through a girl's body from foot to head, comes from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. It appears that in June, 1926, ...