massive bluebottles suddenly appear and buzz crazily around the room bashing into windows and light fittings
tonight I watched one drive himself into a tiny spiders web, the tiny spider was hiding behind a book licking his lips as the fly (which was 10 times bigger than him) tangled around in the web
finally the fly buzzed itself free and continued it's noisy flight around the room but this time draped in cobweb like a great big ghost fly
Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Another post about an interesting translator: Michael S. Rosenwald at the
NY Times reports that “Shuntaro Tanikawa, Popular Poet and Translator of
‘Peanuts...
7 hours ago
Yikes! Isn't that one of the Plagues of Egypt?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it is
DeleteFlues are just a summer nuisance.They'll be gone by Tuesday.Taking summer with them, the buggers!
ReplyDeleteFlies. Not flues.
ReplyDeleteflues are also a nuisance Di ... and fleas
DeleteStuff comes down the flue.
ReplyDeleteI dislike webbed flies... it's like they are making a comment of my standard of housekeeping.
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