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Some kind of major incident on the canal at Radford Bank. Approx 15 emergency vehicles present from all 3 services - inc air ambulance. Anyone know what happened?
Body found I believe, and the run (?) is cancelled.Some kind of major incident on the canal at Radford Bank. Approx 15 emergency vehicles present from all 3 services - inc air ambulance. Anyone know what happened?
Mr Livingstone you presume
Anybody who drove or motorcycled in the 70s or early 80s will remember the sheer amount of splattered insects that resulted from summer outings.I can remember from my childhood that then Buddleyas would be shimmering with butterflies swarming all over them, Your photo wouldn't have had 2 butterflies it would have had a dozen or more. Destruction of the environment & climate change at work.
When I used to drive to the south of France in the 80s the car would be in such a state after the return journey that it would take most of the autumn to wash the damn things off.Anybody who drove or motorcycled in the 70s or early 80s will remember the sheer amount of splattered insects that resulted from summer outings.
Cars may be a bit more slippery now, but front number plates are still square on.
There is some sort of survey going on which uses the splatterings on front number plates, assessed by means of a grid.
My buddleia regularly has 10 - 15 red admirals on it, unless I have my phone with me, then you only ever see 2! (I have 2 buddleia, one's at the bottom of the garden and is a darker colour than the one by the kitchen window, most butterfly's seem to prefer the darker one which is too far away to photo from the kitchen sink).In all fairness there were more than two (there are actually three in the photo) most of the time on the flowers. But I had to get close with the camera and most of them took off when I approached. Creeping about on my front lawn with a camera earned me a few suspicious looks from the neighbours as well.
However I do agree that windscreen and helmet visor bug splats seem much reduced from earlier days. This might have a name: Anthropocene Mass Extinction.
Back in the 80s, in the summer, in the part of France I go to, the noise at night from all the grasshoppers and crickets was almost deafening. Nowadays you would stop and listen if you heard one as it would be so unusual.When I used to drive to the south of France in the 80s the car would be in such a state after the return journey that it would take most of the autumn to wash the damn things off.
The last time I drove down in 2019 (when such things as foreign holidays were realistically possible) I can't even remember getting more than the odd one or two.
Surely you're allowed away from it for the odd minute or two?too far away to photo from the kitchen sink.