Today I saw...

staffordjas

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A driving school car turning right at the old lloyds bank junction, straight through the red lights quite a few seconds after they had gone to red and through the pelican crossings that were on green for me . Luckily I noticed it coming and made it out of the way in time!
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
A driving school car turning right at the old lloyds bank junction, straight through the red lights quite a few seconds after they had gone to red and through the pelican crossings that were on green for me . Luckily I noticed it coming and made it out of the way in time!
Care to name and shame?
 

staffordjas

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Can't remember the name, did make a mental note but had cocaine running around my brain ( ok, probably something similar these days of dentistry ...) So forgot by the time I got home.

Grey coloured mini (?)
 

Withnail

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Today i didn't saw something i was looking for.

It's either because my eyesight is failing me, or that i'm not about 20' tall.

Or both.
 

Withnail

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Tbf, this was what i was looking for -

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- which to put into context, if it isn't quite so obvious from the ^above, is this -

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- small.

Why, you may ask?

This is my idea of a good time.

Yes, i am that much fun at parties...
 

Withnail

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Strictly speaking it is, of course, an egg of two.

From what i've been led to believe, the sunny side is 'up', it is generally described as being 'flying saucer' shaped.

One feels that as soon as one 'spots' the first, the rest will come more easily. Without the first, it is exactly the scale that is the issue - what is it that i am looking for?

Quite why i do this sort of thing to myself is entirely another matter.
 

Withnail

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It's the White-Letter Hairstreak.

There were butterfly 'twitchers' - for want of some sort of other nomenclature for them - earlier in the year that sort of set this whole sequence of events in motion.

It's kind of a big deal for them because it is an insect that has been

PUSHED TO THE EDGE

- these guys are quite passionate about the whole thing, as you might imagine.

Anyhoo, i kind of got caught up in the old madness of it all, and am now (not quite as passionately insane, if you were worried) quite interested in whether we have a 'breeding' population, rather than a transitory 'visiting' one.

It's good to have a hobby, is it not?
 

Withnail

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Flitterers?
'Flitchers' wouldn't be particularly awful, and would be somehow in keeping, but 'Flitterers' would probably be more flattering.

I'm almost sure that they would prefer it - i've not actually looked into whether 'they' have yet named themselves, though one suspects they probably have.

We may be living some sort of awful parallel forumverse that predates the 'Naming Of The Butterfly Nerds' - condemned, as were our forflitterers, to the horrors of the time that shall remain nameless.
 
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