There was a very heady aroma coming from those grapes! I was tempted to taste them myself.David M wrote:Those Tree Graylings are alcoholics!!
I bet by late afternoon they can hardly fly!
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There was a very heady aroma coming from those grapes! I was tempted to taste them myself.David M wrote:Those Tree Graylings are alcoholics!!
I bet by late afternoon they can hardly fly!
Weird isn't it? The two sexes must be subject to quite independent selection pressures.David M wrote:Yes, that Catonephele numilia makes you think. I'd never have guessed they were the same species.
Averaging over the whole of Switzerland, I'm told it's been the wettest summer since 1965. In places, all-time records have been broken - but this is a country of many microclimates. As I write it is absolutely tipping outside, making me wonder whether I will be able to cycle to work tomorrow morning ... Or perhaps more importantly, whether Minnie will agree to go for a walk. She'd much rather cross her legs and clench her bottom than venture outside in the rain! At lunchtime I had to wait until it stopped for a few minutes but we got caught again later on.David M wrote:How bad has it been on the Swiss weather 'Richter Scale'?
Haven't they been doing that since the summer solstice (give or take a day or take allowing for equation of time)?The evenings are drawing in...
They sure do! Isn't it something to do with the elliptical orbit of the earth? Around the equinoxes we gain/lose 4 minutes per day but around the solstices we only lose a minute or so.Padfield wrote:But you must admit, they draw in a jolly site faster around the autumnal equinox - which was not so long ago...