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October is rolling in October is often a beautiful month of course, especially when we see the fruit and colours summer left behind. We have details inside of some trips to take a train ride on the Bluebell Railway to see the trees in their autumn stripes, which sounds like such a lovely outing.
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Hallowe’en can often be fun… as we grownups once again wonder what on earth we can cook with the masses of pumpkins in the shops! Don’t forget if you take some lovely pictures we would like to see if we can use them for our cover – your help is always appreciated. Also, if you have a pastime that you could explain the fun of to others, we would love to hear from you.
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BATS not so batty Bats are extremely important to nature, they pollinate many plants and eat insects and other pests – reducing the need for pesticides and reckoned to save agriculture many billions of pounds a year. They have the reputation of being blind, but this is not so. Many bats have eyesight on a par with humans and can operate far better than us in low light conditions. Bats are thought to use their vision for orientation and whilst travelling between their roosting grounds and feeding grounds, as echolocation is only effective over short distances. We tend to think they have wings but in fact they have arms and hands – their technical order name is Chiroptera, meaning ‘hand wing’. The ‘wings’ are in fact a delicate skin-like membrane between their fingers. As a result they fly better than birds; able to manoeuvre more accurately and fly with more lift and less drag. The complex hand bone-structure means they are able to fold the wings in toward their bodies on the upstroke, in a swimming action, which saves them 35 percent energy during flight. In fact, the fastest animal on earth is a bat – the Brazilian Free-Tail Bat said to fly at over 100 miles an hour….. We also tend to think of them as almost silent. This is far from the case for echolocating species. Bat calls are some of the loudest airborne animal sounds, ranging from 60 – 140 decibels. So, from the sound of a restaurant up to the noise level on an aircraft carrier deck. Fortunately, they shout at a frequency we cannot hear. They use the sound to echolocate obstacles and prey. There are two main methods: ‘low duty cycle’ and ‘high duty cycling’. 4
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•Bats that use low duty cycling bats separate their call and the echo by time. They have to time their short calls to finish before the echoes return. Bats contract their middle ear muscles when emitting a call, so they can avoid deafening themselves. During the time interval between the call and the echo they relax these muscles, so they can hear the returning echo and calculate the range according to the delay. When beginning a hunt, the bat sends out about 10 calls per second. When they get a promising echo, the calls increase to 200 calls per second (known as a feeding buzz), which enables them to hone in very precisely on the quickly-moving, would-be escaping, prey. • Bats who specialise in moth catching tend to use high duty cycling – producing a continuous pulse. These bats’ ears are sharply tuned to specific frequencies and they emit calls outside this range to avoid deafening themselves. Whereas the echo returns inside the optimal hearing range, due to the doppler effect. Bats’ hearing is also sensitised, without echolocation, to the fluttering of moths wings and the movement of ground dwelling insects like centipedes and earwigs. Rather clever, ain’t they? Sure glad I’m bigger than they are!
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Autumn Berry Abundance By Lucinda Warner Autumn is a time of such rich abundance that, if pushed, I would have to say it is my favourite season. The smell of mushrooms and damp earth in the woods, the trees and hedges festooned with jewel-red berries, the golden yellow leaves in the low sun, it all combines to provoke a feeling a deep nourishment and bounty.
much you can do with your berry harvest; adding them into stocks to freeze for use in soups and stews through the winter, creating natural dyes and inks to experiment with, making delicious fruit leathers, along with the usual jellies, jams, ketchups and preserves. Below are two of our autumn berry traditions that you might also like to try.
It’s also a time of transition however and one where it is wise to begin to slow down, take stock and build up our reserves in preparation for winter.
(Please consult a good guide book or an experienced forager and be 100% sure of your identification before picking any berries as there are a variety of poisonous lookalikes common in this area.)
We have a few autumn berry traditions in our family to mark the changing season. Beginning with the elderberries and blackberries in September, now we are gathering the hawthorns, sloes and rosehips, all of which are a little early this year thanks to the hot summer. There is so
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Hawthorn, Rosehip and Ginger Syrup: This is a lovely anti-oxidant rich recipe for helping to protect the cardiovascular system and boost immunity. Simmer gently together a handful each of rosehips and hawthorn berries with a few slices of fresh ginger (to taste) in enough water to cover. Add a little more water if necessary and give the berries a good mash with a potato masher or fork after about half an hour. Strain well through muslin or a jelly bag as both berries have inedible seeds, which can be quite irritating in the case of rosehip. Measure the strained juice
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and return to the pan with an equal quantity of rapidura or muscovado sugar in grams as you have liquid in mls. (So if you have 200mls liquid you will add 200g sugar.) Bring to a boil until thickened, pour into sterilized jars and label. I advise using jars instead of bottles because hawthorn has a high level of pectin which can make it set more thickly, depending on how much of the pulp you have included in your strained mixture. Rowan Berry Strings: An old tradition was to make a cross of Rowan berries on red thread in autumn to protect the home for the coming year. We tend to make strings of berries which we tie into a loop and hang up instead - so simple but a lovely activity to do with children, friends or as a meditative activity by yourself. Just thread the berries on to red thread with a needle, tie the ends together in a loop and leave to completely dry before hanging up by your door. . Lucinda Warner is a Brighton based herbalist and plant lover. For more information on the herbs and preparations mentioned see whisperingearth.co.uk
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If you do not have the internet, you can phone 0800 408 5500 – free phone number - and give them the license number off the card.
In the event that a different engineer turns up to actually do the work, again ask to see their id card. It might be a good idea to mention you would like them to bring their card when they attend. You could even think about asking for the licence number in advance, so you will be able to recognise the engineer when they arrive. (Similarly, if for any reason an engineer does not have their card on them, just ask them for their licence number and you will still be able to look them up on the internet or phone.)
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The Home Dressmaker By Jayne Shrimpton
As autumn arrives we may spend more time at home and take up indoor pursuits, perhaps home dressmaking – a traditional domestic skill. Home sewing is far less common now than in our mothers’ and grandmothers’ day, but was once part of daily life, practised in almost every household. Learning to sew Most of our female forebears learned to sew as soon as they could handle needle and thread, this being considered a fundamental feminine accomplishment. Before the machine age, young girls from all walks of life learned hand-sewing, often being taught at home, alongside other household tasks. Many girls ultimately
fashioned whole garments, stitching their own linen caps, kerchiefs, aprons and shifts, baby clothes and men’s shirts and handkerchiefs: sewing and embellishing basic dress articles, including the family’s linen, was seen as a woman’s duty. For privileged ladies needlecrafts remained chiefly a genteel pastime, for they could always summon help from servants or employed professional garment-makers. However, generations of ordinary women made, altered and repaired clothes for themselves and their families, a necessary economy in poorer households before ready-made shop-bought clothing became widely available. For many working women sewing at home also provided a vital form of income.
The frontispiece from The Workwoman’s Guide, 1838 shows how girls were taught to sew at school from a young age
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This illustration shows a lady using one of the new sewing machines, available in the UK by the late-1850s [Jayne Shrimpton]
Domestic sewing machines began to transform home dressmaking from the 1860s onwards, this model by Weir’s being advertised in 1865 [Jayne Shrimpton]
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Sewing machines, in speeding up plain stitching encouraged more complex styling, as exemplified by the ornate costumes in this fashion plate, 1875 [Jayne Shrimpton] From the early-1800s schools were encouraged to include needlework in the curriculum, and in Victorian England many dame schools, village
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Many adjustments were made to Victorian sewing machine designs, the new American ‘Vertical feed’ sewing machine being available in London by 1883 [Jayne Shrimpton]
schools, Sunday schools and orphanages taught sewing. As the education system expanded, domestic subjects became compulsory for girls, to equip them for their future roles as wives and mothers and potentially for jobs in domestic service, dressmaking or millinery. Many Victorian societies and charitable organisations also organised sewing instruction for disadvantaged children in their locality; workhouses taught pauper boys tailoring and girls sewing, knitting and other domestic skills, to prepare them for adult life in the outside world. Teachers used practical instruction books such as Needlework and Cutting Out (1884) by Kate Stanley, Head Governess and Teacher of Needlework at Whitelands
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College, Chelsea. ‘Account’ or sampler books displayed the children’s work, which included knitting, crochet, fine needlework, plain stitching and the gussets and gores used in garment making. Girls also learned to hem, sew and fell seams; attach buttons and tape strings; gather and tuck fabric; and patch, darn and strengthen thinning material. Basics mastered, they then progressed to cutting-out and making-up useful items like ‘Baby’s First Shirt; a Nightgown; a Long White Petticoat; a Robe and Pinafore for Baby; a Woman’s Chemise and Gored Flannel Petticoat.’ Garment Patterns Successful home sewing depended on available resources. Linen or cotton aprons, shifts, shirts and other
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garment patterns alongside their fashion illustrations, or readers could apply for them by post. Patterns for items like underwear, bodices and mantles were all printed on one large sheet of paper, the home dressmaker then tracing off the required parts and adjusting them for size.
Singer sewing machines became a household name, late-Victorian and Edwardian advertisements often demonstrating how easy they were for children to operate
In time, commercial pattern companies became established beginning in America: two of today’s familiar names, Butterick and McCall’s, were founded respectively in 1863 and 1870, Butterick operating in Britain by 1876. Their cut-out pattern pieces in white tissue paper had notches and perforations by way of directions: no printed markings as yet.
loose or unshaped items were relatively easy to make, but fitted clothes like dresses needed a reliable template to follow when cutting out fabric. Home dressmakers often copied an existing garment, unpicking seams to create a flat ‘model’ which was traced onto thin paper or directly onto the lining material of the new garment. Friends and relatives also shared and borrowed such patterns based on existing clothes, professionally-made original garments being especially coveted for the purpose. By the mid-1800s periodicals aimed mainly at the rising middle classes, like The Englishwomen’s Domestic Magazine, began to issue free small-scale paper
Cinema influenced home dressmaking, with movie magazines linking film and fashion, providing patterns enabling women to copy the styles of their favourite screen idols [Jayne Shrimpton]
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Using such patterns, ideally the dress lining was first cut out and fitted directly against the body: when a good fit was achieved then the lining pieces became the model for cutting out the more costly garment material. Clothing fabric of all varieties was purchased in large stores, small shops, market stalls and itinerant drapers or peddlers. Affordable sewing ‘notions’ – needles, thread, buttons, trimmings and so on, later called haberdashery – were widely available. Even in Brighton’s village-like Fiveways area there was once a haberdashery shop between Hythe Road and Preston Drove: run by two elderly ladies, this was still going in the early-1980s.
During WW2 sewing was essential and afterwards home dressmaking remained common, with popular actresses continuing to endorse fashionable patterns in women’s magazines [Jayne Shrimpton]
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Sewing machines Rising demand for paper dressmaking patterns was fuelled by the arrival of the domestic sewing machine. The earliest attempt at a working machine is usually said to be that patented by Thomas Saint in London, 1790, for sewing leather. However it was American Elias Howe who patented the first practical lock-stitch sewing machine using the two threads familiar in domestic machines today. Isaac Singer followed in 1851 with an improved, more efficient model, the name of Singer becoming synonymous with the new apparatus. In 1856 Singer launched a sewingmachine agency in Glasgow, his machines reaching British home dressmakers through retail shops. Other brands also emerged and by the late-1860s around 20 different domestic sewing machines existed. Many early sewing machines were expensive at around £10 to £15, although some models were cheaper and ultimately prices in general reduced by the late-1800s. Sometimes friends, relatives and neighbours clubbed together, sharing a handcrank or treadle machine; some acquired machines using hire purchase systems. Access to a sewing machine brought considerable advantages to the home dressmaker, although the ease with which long seams and lengths of trimming could now be sewn encouraged the use of ever more stitching and complex trimmings. The art of dressmaking had become both simpler, and more complicated. 20th-Century progress Electricity provided a new form of power from the 1880s, Singer developing its first electric sewing machine in 1889, although many British homes were not connected to electricity until after the creation of the national grid in 1926. During the later 1920s and 1930s, more urban households began to acquire the new electric machines, while simultaneously clothing styles grew much simpler, no longer requiring the traditional precision of fit and becoming easier to run up at home. Pattern companies now became more competitive, attracting home dressmakers by making their patterns easier to use. In 1921 McCall pioneered printed patterns on large sheets of tissue with dart placements, notches for matching pieces and other useful information such as naming each separate piece, following this in 1924 with more detailed directions. Eventually other companies did likewise, 16
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Even daily newspapers offered their readers garment patterns, as seen in this dressing-gown advertisement from The Daily Mail, 8th March 1921 [Jayne Shrimpton] creating more user-friendly patterns with clear instructions that formed the prototype for those we use today, enabling many ordinary women to enhance the quality and style of their wardrobes. www.jayneshrimpton.co.uk
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AUTUMN TART Seasonal Recipe by Valerie Hedgethorne This is a mushroom and bacon quiche. For vegetarians cheese can be substituted for the bacon.
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• 110g (4oz) butter Valerie Hedgethorne taught cookery & cake decorating for many years in Brighton before becoming a Home Economist and writing for the national magazine CAKE for 20 years. Valerie is a past president of the British Sugarcraft Guild & is a member of the local Guild Branch, which meets monthly in Rottingdean for demonstrations of all types of cake decorating. Anyone with an interest in cake decorating is welcome – for more information phone Valerie on 01273 505223.
• 25g (1oz) white fat • 15g (1/2 oz) grated parmesan cheese Filling • 500g (1lb) mushrooms – mixed if possible • 150g (3oz) smoked bacon rashers • 1 small onion • 2 eggs • 2 egg yolks • 300g crème fraiche • 2 tablespoons oil • Salt and black pepper
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AUTUMN TART CONTINUED METHOD: Rub the fats into the flour, mix in the parmesan cheese with salt and pepper, and add just enough cold water to form a firm dough. Leave to rest for 10 minutes. Heat the oven to Gas 7/210C. Grease the tin. Roll out the pastry to line the tin or dish and prick the base with a fork. Press a piece of foil into the base and bake for 25 minutes, remove the foil and bake for a further 10 minutes then take out of the oven and reduce the heat to Gas 6/200C. Wipe the mushrooms where necessary and trim the stalks, slice the largest ones. The smallest can be left whole.
Chop the onions. In a large frying pan fry in the oil for a few minutes. Remove the fat from the bacon, cut it into strips, add to the onions and fry 2-3 minutes. Add the mushrooms, sprinkle with salt and pepper, fry 2-3 minutes. Beat the eggs and yolks with the crème fraiche, a pinch of mustard and salt. Mix into the mushrooms then put all into the pre-cooked pastry. Put into the oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until firm and brown. Eat whilst still warm.
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Can’t be too careful! The ravages of the cholera pandemics of the 19th century fed into a fear of being buried alive. As we know it was a period of creating complicated contraptions and many ingenious minds set about solving the problem by inventing the ultimate ‘Safety Coffin’. A Safety Coffin was a coffin fitted with a mechanism to allow the occupant to signal they had been buried alive. Hundreds of cases were reported of doctors mistakenly pronouncing people dead. Whether early fake news or macabre marketing, these reports led to the invention of many safety devices that could be incorporated into coffins. Most consisted of providing a means of the departed communicating with the outside world, such as a cord attached to 20
a bell. Some designs raised flags, had ladders, escape hatches even feeding tubes - although few provided air. The enterprising Dr. Adolf Gutsmuth was buried alive several times to demonstrate a safety coffin of his own design. In 1822 he stayed underground for several hours and even ate a meal of soup, bratwurst, marzipan, sauerkraut, spätzle, beer, and for dessert, prinzregententorte, delivered to him through the coffin’s feeding tube. As an alternative, the 1820s saw the use of “portable death chambers” in Germany. For this, a small chamber equipped with a bell for signalling and a window for viewing the body, was constructed over an empty grave. Watchmen would check
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each day for signs of life or decomposition in each of the chambers. If the bell was rung the “body” could be immediately removed but if the watchman observed signs of putrefaction in the corpse, a door in the floor of the chamber could be opened and the body would drop down into the grave. A panel could then be slid in to cover the grave and the upper chamber removed and reused. Nice…dignified…. It is awful to think of the poor watchmen and even worse to imagine the torment the uncertainty must have caused the bereaved.
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WELLBEING EVENT IN BRIGHTON FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY PARKINSON’S Parkinson’s UK is inviting people in Brighton and Hove to join a wellbeing day on Saturday 27th October at Brighthelm Centre, anytime from 12 to 4pm to experience new activities and therapies that could improve your wellbeing. The free event is for anyone in the area who is affected by Parkinson’s, or is interested in learning more about the condition. Local people can try therapies including reflexology and massage or join a mindfulness, dance or drumming session.
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Suggested donation £3.00 on the door or whatever you can afford. Tea and coffee available. St Nicholas Church, Church Street, Brighton BN1 3LJ. On the corner of Church Street and Dyke Road.Tel: 01273 205360. Email: saintnics@xlnmail.com
Elbow Pleaser –
Place your elbows in the skins of two lemon halves – massage with a gentle circular movement. After ten minutes you will have soft, white elbows.
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As with all treatments for Parkinson’s, different things work for different people. So we encourage anyone affected by the condition who is interested in complementary therapies to explore what works for them. For information and support call Parkinson’s UK’s free confidential helpline on 0808 800 0303 or visit parkinsons.org.uk. For advice, information and support, visit www.parkinsons.org.uk or call our free, confidential helpline on 0808 800 0303.
3th Pillow – dark and cinematic compositions by James Osler, local jazz musician, blending harmonic complexity of jazz with simple folk like melodies with the instrumentation of a classical string ensemble 10th Bunch of Daphs (choir) – return to St Nicolas with a wonderful mix of medieval to modern day pieces, all delivered with their usual joie de vivre! 17th Martin Smith (Euphonium) – the Lyrical Euphonium with the renowned Martin Smith 24th Gemini Duo (violin duo) – Halvorsen, Leclair, Bartok, Igudesman and more. 31st Gemma Kateb (piano) – Song and Dance (works by Mompou, Chopin, Ginastera and Granados
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October at The BlueBell Railway October is a busy month on the Bluebell Railway. Their wonderful events are popular, so make sure you book in advance on www.bluebellrailway.com as soon as you can! 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th,17th and 18th of October – Autumn Tints Travel in our comfortable 1950’s lounge cars, or in the 1913 Observation car and see the High Weald’s glorious Autumn colour. Trains depart from Sheffield Park station at 11.45am and 2.15pm. Adult £16 Child (3-15) £8; Observation car adult £17 child £8.50 Snackish? Book your place in the restaurant car for Soup & a roll (11.45am train - £22.50 adult, £14.50 child) or a cream tea, (2.15pm train - £24 adult, £16 child) 12th, 13th and 14th Oct – Giants of Steam at the Autumn Steam Gala Weekend The weekend will see the rare visit of one of Sir Nigel Gresley’s steam giants: ‘Union
of South Africa’ , one of only 6 surviving locomotives of this type and the last operational survivor in the UK. These Bugatti-inspired, streamlined, wedge-shape engines became a symbol of 1930s luxury and elegance and fascination for speed. The ‘Union of South Africa’ enjoyed a long and illustrious career from its introduction in 1937 right up to 1966 when it was withdrawn from standard service. This may easily be the last chance to see this giant in the South East, as it is due to be displayed in a museum in Scotland from early 2019. 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th & 28th – Hallowe’en Scream Train
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29th, 30th, 31st October Hallowe’en Experience – Dystopia Station Dystopia Station is an immersive event with a Hallowe’en theme. Live actors will be present. The event is partly outdoors, so dress accordingly. There are steps, uneven ground and strobe lighting. Recommended age 14+, visitors under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Departs 18.30pm from Sheffield Park, £30.
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MAGICAL TAHINI The nutty flavour of Tahini is the very taste of autumn. Tahini is a source of calcium, manganese, the amino acid methionine, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Compared to peanut butter, tahini has higher levels of fibre and calcium and lower levels of sugar and saturated fats. The paste is made from sesame seeds which have been soaked in water to separate the bran from the kernels before being toasted and crushed to form an oily paste. It is so versatile that it is a common ingredient in cuisines across the world. As well as using marmalade style on toast, perhaps with a little honey, or adding to porridge, it can also be made into a sauce, a dip, a marinade, a dressing and even used in baking. Sauce: Whisk equal parts of tahini and iced water together, adding lemon juice, garlic and seasoning to taste. Good with falafel
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and on kebabs and with almost any grilled meat or fish.
mint - plus seasoning and serve with grilled aubergines.
Dip: Use the paste as a dip with freshly grilled pitta bread. (Can be spiced up with harissa or mixed with roasted pumpkin)
Baking: Great addition to chocolate chip cookie dough or brownie mix.
Marinade: Combine tahini, lemon zest and juice, ground cumin, smoked paprika and olive oil. Marinade chicken thighs for 2-4 hours before cooking through and serving with Tahini sauce (of course!) Dressings: Blend tahini sauce with maple syrup to create a sweet, salty dressing that goes well with green beans, beansprouts and grilled asparagus. Or you could mix tahini with Greek yoghurt, garlic, lemon juice, herbs – e.g. chopped coriander, parsley &
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Sesame is one of the oldest oilseed crops, domesticated in India over 5500 years ago. It is probably such an historic crop due to its ability to survive in harsh conditions with little farming support, in high heat, drought or poor soil. The cultivated varieties are far more productive than the wild strains. It is an annual, growing up to between to 18 inches to more than 3 feet tall. After flowering their fruit is a capsule, which bursts when ripe to release their many seeds – an become important cash crop.
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Pipistrelle Bats About 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide are bats, with over 1,200 species they are the second largest order of mammals. There are 18 species in Britain, the most common is also the smallest: the Pipistrelle. Pipistrelles are often mistaken for birds as they flit about the trees and hedgerows at twilight looking for insects to eat. Despite having a body just 4cms long, they nonetheless manage to tuck away 3000 insects a night….which makes them very popular with farmers… Their jerky flight gave rise to the old English word for bat, Flittermouse (Fledermaus in German)
“It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.”
We may associate bats with Hallowe’en because twilight is earlier and because the bats are active, in a race against time to build up their fat reserves to survive the winter ahead. October/September is also the mating season, before winter has depleted the energy of the males. Remarkably, the female is able to store the sperm in her body and delay fertilisation until spring, so she does not have meet the demands of pregnancy at a time of year without food. Come June she will give birth to a single pup, 40% of her own weight… so rather like giving birth to a toddler… and then nurse the pup for the next six weeks into August. She can expect her pup to live for 4-5 years, which is an unusually long life for such a small animal - although some Pipistrelles have been recorded to reach 11.
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