through Guyana Gyal's blog I see mentioned in the comments an insect called The Blandford Fly.
Although G's post is about more serious biting insects, she does live in Guyana after all, I'm much taken by the quaintly named Blandford Fly. Of course the good folk of Blandford in Dorset seem to view this fly with less enthusiasm, however, in fly naming circles I think The Blandford Fly has done very well indeed. After all it could have been called The Ugly Hook Fly of Blandford Drain or some such thing but nope, in the name stakes it hit bulls eye first time.
The Blandford Fly reminds me of those 60's TV series such as The Persuaders, or Jason King, where chaps might wear a frilly shirt and sleep with lots of women to save them from surly types who were also thin. Indeed, I'm almost certain the original Blandford Fly was some TV fop who drove fast cars and knew the importance of washing colours separately. The Blandford Fly, a modern hero, brave, sensitive, and not at all afraid of using the delicate cycle on silk. Whadda guy!
6 comments:
humm, the Blandford Fly, a metrosexual? I wouldn't a'thunk it.
Definately sounds like a series, though, and not about the fly girls.
And if it wasn't the title of a 60's series then why not? Is the question I want answering.
Ah the 60's. The decade where people could wear the most pathetic pieces of crap and still get laid.
K,
Yup, and if you look at some of that stuff, the hair, the facial hair, er the hair... However, that was the height of fashion then plus it was a reaction to the bland greyness of the period that went before it. Not sure what it was like in Canada then but in this country not only were there two primary colours, black and tan but elderly men wore their trouser waistband up over their chest. Sad times indeed.
Ah, but they used to wear flowers in their hair in the 60's, didn't they? I don't know.
That Blandford Fly sounds like a highway robber too, the ones that rode horses late at night on roads dark like purple ribbon.
Yes G, he's a fly type that Blandford Fly.
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