On more occasions than he can count, clients who have walked into Robert Bader’s business to get a new tattoo have also told him about a tattoo they regret. A name of an ex-boyfriend or ex ...

But the English language owes the red-breasted songbird an apology. We’ve got gaggles of geese and murmurations of starlings, murders of crows and covers of coots. For a big bunch of robins?