I seem to
be having a Zebra Moment.
On the news
there was one single item that was not about Brexit, and it was that zebras have stripes to confuse horseflies – apparently the flies dislike landing on stripes.
Hmmm –
you’d think that the strong smell of zebra would still be an attraction to the
little insects.
However,
lately, I have had a lot of zebra sightings – enough to check the research.
For instance, there's the
horse in zebra’s clothing which sits at a café table in Brussels train station.
Unlike an ordinary horse, he seems not to be troubled by horseflies.
(Although perhaps
he has a sad expression, owing to Brexit.)
At half
term in a pub in Ghent, we saw not a horse, but a bull dressed as a zebra. (Okay, so my picture shows there was ALSO a
bull dressed as a tiger, but it’s a zebra theme I’m following here.) We also ate in a great restaurant on Zebra Street.
In neither place
did horseflies ruin our repast.
Our friend
John has wood-turned a bowl from zebrano – not a fly to be seen.
Then, last
weekend, Carenza turned up wearing a zebra-print jacket.
I checked
behind her, but there were no horseflies in pursuit, so the research must be
correct.
I admit, I
doubted the findings, but my own extensive research conclusively proves they
are water-tight.
And okay - I can't completely avoid Brexit. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION : -
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