25/08/2019
one of the publishers’ readers of On the Origin of Species famously suggested Darwin remove everything except the bits on pigeons, for “everybody is interested in pigeons”
A decade ago I went to a racing pigeon club meeting with my boyfriend of the time, who lived in a bungalow on a farm in the Midlands and kept a loft of Janssens, checkered blue racing pigeons resembling town pigeons that had spent too much time at the gym. The meeting was in a Portakabin on what I t...
