You might just want to stop and think before calling them the Ten Plagues. People living with swarms of locusts have to deal with enough stigma already without this unhelpful labelling etc etc etc
In the garden today: it’s a good year for the roses. This beauty, a gift from some dear friends, goes by the rousingly Shakespearean name of Falstaff.
For anyone still wondering about Dr Blake and his giant dragonfly, here’s another gold-plated quotation from Monster on the Campus, this time from Dr Blake himself: “Over here we have a dragonfly which, for a brief period after ingesting coelacanth blood, became two feet long.” So now you know.
In the garden today: who doesn’t love a snapdragon? The bees certainly do.
Dear @theguardian.com, nice piece about the rise of octopus numbers in UK waters, but I’ve never heard of ‘conga eels’. Do they dance along in single file? Think you mean ‘conger eels’. Are subeditors even a thing any more?
Oh, hi mum. Setting aside the trifling facts that (a) you never had a mobile phone, (b) you unfailingly adhered to a quaint old habit of writing in sentences and using punctuation, (c) I never called you “mum”, and (d) you died 27 years ago, this seems entirely legit.