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Listed below are comments made by MoscowRoss between Thursday, 22nd May 2008 and Wednesday, 27th May 2009.

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Map of the Week: North African migrants invade UK 5:58pm on 27 May 2009 Wonderful eclectic article, as ever - thank you.

You ask for a collective noun for butterflies, and specifically for 'Painted Ladies'. From this and as they are floating daffodils, how about 'A Whorde' of butterflies? (Think of US troops on R&R in Vietnam, who referred to their ephemeral consorts of an evening as Iron Butterflies).
Caption Competition 3:06pm on 22 May 2008 If his dyslexia had been spotted, "Darwin's Finchley birds" would have only interested a few passing builders.

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