An Egyptian Moth RIP

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Charles Nicol
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Many thanks Guy & David.
We are all worried, my elderly mother especially so. My brother speaks fluent Arabic & has official permits to move around after the curfew but things could easily go wrong.
He works as a journalist so will have plenty of material for the future....

Charles
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Have you got your brother back from Cairo yet, Charles? I see they're sending out another plane to pick up British nationals.

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padfield wrote:Have you got your brother back from Cairo yet, Charles? I see they're sending out another plane to pick up British nationals.

Guy
sorry i missed this post Guy...

he has stayed on & managed to get in to work each day somehow. his newspaper did not miss an edition throughout the troubles, although it was often slimmer than usual :)

thank goodness he was not working in Libya

Charles

8) 8)

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The only butterflies I ever saw in the course of numerous visits with the RAF to Libya in the 1960s were African Grass Blues Zizeeria knysna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizeeria_knysna

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Jack Harrison wrote:The only butterflies I ever saw in the course of numerous visits with the RAF to Libya in the 1960s were African Grass Blues Zizeeria knysna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizeeria_knysna

Jack
We were in Tobruk just before the revolution which swept MG into power. I remember Hummingbird Hawk Moths but not butterflies, although no doubt there were some around. We used to collect scraps of shrapnel & bullet casings from WWII which were around the beach club. Happy Days

Charles

:) :)
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