I don't know why, but I keep attacking people who are lost and ask me for directions. I'm able to help them thankfully 

Just got visions of someone asking directions and after you've given them a bloody lip saying, ok second on the left, third right....I don't know why, but I keep attacking people who are lost and ask me for directions. I'm able to help them thankfully![]()
And the nerd car parade continues as at the local supermarket there was a Jeep painted like a Jurassic Park utility jeep.Saw two nerd license plates: TheGorn and GryLedr
Butterflies out in force this morning as I walked across the fields. Mainly ringlets and meadow browns but a first for me - a marbled white. Also scarlet-and-black cinnabar moths. There were a number of pale yellowish moths but I can't identify those - there's too many different species that look very alike so I'll just say they are pretty.
Goldfinches and bullfinches in the trees.
(Sadly the canal people have just cut back the verges - so the vetch and vetchling which are in flower at the minute and attract butterlies and insects are gone Worse still, all the ragwort, the favoured food plant of the cinnabar moth larvae, has gone just when it is needed)
"Thistlefinch" is found in English as a dialect name (possibly "historic dialect name" now!) for the goldfinch (Carduelis Carduelis). Perhaps that's a common Germanic root.Had to look up 'bullfinch'. Interestingly, 'bullfinch' apparently translates to 'goudvink' ('goldfinch'), so logically, I looked up 'goldfinch' next, which came out as 'distelvink' ('thistlefinch').
Languages are funny![]()
Languages are funny. Interesting to see how the sounds translate.Had to look up 'bullfinch'. Interestingly, 'bullfinch' apparently translates to 'goudvink' ('goldfinch'), so logically, I looked up 'goldfinch' next, which came out as 'distelvink' ('thistlefinch').
Languages are funny![]()
Languages are funny. Interesting to see how the sounds translate.
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