A BBC website headline announces “‘Black Death pit’ unearthed”, and is followed up with a story starting:
Excavations for London’s Crossrail project have unearthed bodies believed to date from the time of the Black Death.
When I read the news, my first thought was of Quatermass and the Pit, so I hope they don’t find any bugs like the one in the photo.
The bug – a langosta in Spanish – has been there for weeks, hibernating discreetly on the bead curtain. At one point there were two of them (hibernating discretely, I suppose).
It looks like a grasshopper to me, but langosta translates as locust, so I guess I should just be glad we don’t have a plague of them.
Which bring us full circle to the Black Death and that burial ground.
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