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- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
Smaller, darker, lives in Norfolk, and extremely fussy about its food. And, we might suppose, simultaneously fascinated and repulsed by the flamboyance and promiscuous eating habits of its Continental cousin.
ReplyDeleteThis is also rather wonderful: "Gritting the roads with salt increases wing power in butterflies and boosts their brain size, according to a study released earlier this week.
ReplyDeleteResearch by Minnesota University found male insects that fed on plants rich in sodium that had run off from nearby roads had bigger muscles - while the females had larger eyes."
Absolutely, Waldo - give me the dark and dwarfish Norfolk-dweller every time!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Anon, that's an interesting bit of research - butterflies love their minerals, and I'm sure there's a lot more to be found out about their tastes and needs. The things Purple Emperors enjoy feeding on are utterly disgusting...