Country diary: the sheer gall of a wasp writing the US constitution
Leonardo da Vinci, JS Bach and the US constitution all owe a considerable debt to the tiny wasp I accidentally entombed behind glass. I found the unlucky creature at the bottom of a sweetie jar that I had filled with cocoa-coloured balls that looked like Maltesers but were as hard as walnut …
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