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<\/p>\nWe have a plague of biblical proportions!<\/p>\n
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This is the second locust I\u2019ve seen in our garden this week! Or is it a cricket? Is there a difference?? I must say, I haven\u2019t read that bit of the Bible (is it the Old Testament where all the scary weird things happened? Glad I wasn\u2019t around in the old days!), so I\u2019m not sure how many constitute a plague. Oh no, scratch that – I think it\u2019s the same one I saw on my lime tree yesterday. Phew! Have avoided God\u2019s \u00a0wrath another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have a plague of biblical proportions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-16b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4359,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/15\/plague\/","url_meta":{"origin":4227,"position":0},"title":"Plague","author":"Interloper11","date":"March 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Decided it was timely to watch the Stephen Soderbergh film Contagion last night. 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