Life Less Literary

Yay! I just saved a butterfly.

It had been fluttering around, on and off, all morning, in a gap between the window and the blind, about 8 feet above my head. I got up on my chair and used a broom to gently guide it towards the open window. Eventually we made it. Was very rewarding watching it flutter away over the rooftops of Sheffield below me.

Reminds me, last night just as I was closing the windows up here, a moth made a dive to get into the house. He maneuvered past me, Luke Skywalker-style, turning on his side to squeeze through the last gap of window before bursting triumphantly into the void of the living room (and probably aiming a single fatal bolt of laser energy at the stereo cabinet). It was an awesome sight. I never really thought of moths as very aeronautical creatures.