Well the good news. Singing cicadas will be reintroduced to the New Forest over the next few years. They are French! So they will have to learn the English songs. But it is so heartwarming that people care and that these eleven little precious insects hold the key to once more cicadas singing in the New Forest again. I am sure Heywood Sumner of who I just recently wrote about would be pleased to hear that.
Bad news. The Israel state cannot get enough of war and so have started on Iran, once known as Persia. A romantic name to fall in love with. My ex-sister-in law once brought back to Switzerland Persian rugs. Ours was a rich deep patterned brown, but my old labrador chewed a hole in it. Has no one realised that once you kill in war, hate will proliferate and then there is a never ending war of hatred.
Then there is Lucy, who had no concept of war, reading the doggy runes of this stone. Who has passed this way on their dog walk, who has peed on the stone, a lifetime away for me but still a comfort for that which is normal in life.
We can learn a lot by observing our dogs, they don't worry about what might or might not happen in future. Dogs sure enjoy what I call pee-mail. They learn about the previous dogs, their age, sex, health, etc by examining the doggy runes.
ReplyDeleteNever heard about pee-mail before but it is exactly that of course, a dog's nose can read the signals instantly.
DeleteI never knew there had been Cicadas in the New Forest (before my time I don't doubt). I have (had?) Heywood Sumner's lovely book, but it may have been in the huge cull when we moved.
ReplyDeleteThen there are the people who take their dog "for a walk" and don't even allow it the time to sniff and find out who has been where, and when, and scarcely allow them time to pee . . . Saw one being dragged round the Groe here, not allowed to be a dog.
Yes sadly too many people acquired dogs in the Covid period for company but the needs of the dog was not understood. Culling books leaves one needing them in later times and a sense of loss;)
DeleteI hope it is ok to introduce French cicadas to England. Importing foreign critters to Australia has been an ongoing disaster.
ReplyDeleteWell they will be contained at another place for a few years to see if they will breed and then let out in the forest. As the species lived here before, there should not be any trouble Andrew.
DeleteIf we keep all of these wars spreading, humans will end up killing each other off and the cicadas will rule the earth.
ReplyDeleteThink it is the ants that have first dibs on that Ellen and of course the rats that follow the human race around. You be careful tomorrow by the way.
ReplyDeleteSadly, Israel is about to reap the consequences of their militant Zionism, just as my own country is going to reap the consequences of militant Christian Nationalism. I hope that the rest of the world stays out of it. They have done it to themselves. Let them sort their own mess out.
ReplyDeleteWell there is nothing to say about the Israel state without getting angry so sadly let it sort the problem out itself Debby. You have probably protested already so I hope you feel happy at the outcome, though goodness knows how it will all unfold in the future.
Deletebetter start planting some cheese plants to attract the french cicadas..... there must be a french tree pun somewhere? Du vin, du pine, du boursin? I can't think of better than that.....
ReplyDeleteSome cicadas can stay underground for 17 years, so it could be a long time before we see them in the New Forest A/F.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post
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