Jungftak

You may think I'm introducing my latest German word here but I'm not.  The word is a Mountweazel.

Jungftak was included in the 1943 Webster's Dictionary and has the following definition:-  a Persian bird, the male of which had only one wing, on the right side, and the female only one wing, on the left side; instead of the missing wings, the male had a hook of bone, and the female an eyelet of bone, and it was by uniting hook and eye that they were enabled to fly — each, when alone, had to remain on the ground.

Which is a lovely story in and of itself.

And so we've both learned something today.

The sky in today's Blip looks dramatic but nothing happened.  As so often happens, the skies boil and the weather goes off down south or up north and we're left wishing for more rain.