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·Going in to town on the Metro this evening a gentleman nervously pointed out a bright green insect crawling over my sleeve.
He was quite surprised when I calmly picked it up, said
"Oh I think it's a shield-bug" and put it out of the window.
"My husband's an entomologist" I explained.
Bess Cavalier Fester been bringing his work home?
Fay Shield bugs are so pretty too
- lucky you!
Bentonbag Bess - He always brings his work home, I have a
garage full of Iceland bags filled with little tubes with creatures in, plus
other bags full of bags with 'samples' not yet sorted i.e. mud, vegetation and
dead things.
I hope you have no idea how the stench of a
long dead shrew (or slug) can pervade throughout the house!
At present his obsession is making a list of
every colliery that has ever existed North of the Tyne (nobody else has
attempted this - he asked) so we are inundated by replica maps and all car
trips are punctuated by "There used to be a pit over there".
Makes a change I suppose from "I caught
beetles there" or "I got drunk there" or "that diesel has
very pretty fairings"!
I've just read this out to him and his response was
"I can do pits where I caught beetles -
there's a few of them."
Bess Cavalier Oh I can imagine the
smell. I've got a strong stomach! When I worked at the Dental School at University of Newcastle upon Tyne local dentists used to send in packs of extracted teeth -
some with abscesses still attached - for the students to do autopsies on -
no-one else in the office would deal with them so I had to unpack them and take
them up to the labs.
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