Buttons and Unknown Pleasures

Miss Aimson and I went to see The Button Project today at Macclesfield.  If you haven't been you're too late as it finishes tomorrow. 
Here is a picture of some buttons:

We also had a look round The Silk Museum Heritage Centre, which I am ashamed to say we haven't looked at before.  I bought a picture of Marianne Brocklehurst and a map of places related to Ian Curtis in Macclesfield.  Master Aimson can walk around Macclesfield moodily in black and white.
Here are the shots from when I walked round Macclesfield in black and white.  I was very moody, and got a migraine because I was accompanied by a Scouser with verbal diarrhoea.

Next time we will go and see West Park Museum to see Miss Brocklehurst's Egyptology collection.  She was a spiffy sort of Victorian heiress, who travelled Egypt with her companion collecting treasures, keeping journals, doing watercolours, that sort of thing.
On the way home, as we walked from the bus stop, past the waste land (planning permission to build 11 houses.  What about the common lizards, the bee orchids?) , we saw a host. a flapping host of butterflies.  Talk about making hay while the sun shines, the mummy and daddy butterflies have obviously been making butterflies while the sun shines. 
We have a lot of self-sown willows in the garden at Aimo's House, which I leave partly because the caterpillars love them.  We have been growing batch after batch of caterpillars on these for the last month or more.  Obviously it is all coming to fruition now, and everywhere is covered in butterflies and moths.  The thistles on the waste land were covered in tortoiseshells, peacocks and different whites.  We counted 20 tortoiseshells as we walked past.