Monthly Archives: July 2019

The fierce rain of yesterday cleared overnight, but it was a dull and overcast day, and my mood was appropriately down-beat. I almost talked myself into going out, but the light really wasn’t good enough for bug hunting, and in … Continued

Oh no – sorry. It’s a tiny helenium bud, not much bigger than a shirt button. But the curly bracts do make me think of triffids, for some reason – perhaps because they look as though they might have minds … Continued

I’d been planning to go to Shropshire tomorrow in search of dragons, but on checking the weather forecast this morning I discovered that it had changed quite radically since I’d last looked, and that today was now looking like the … Continued

R and I went over to Oxfordshire today, to visit my sister, brother-in-law and nephews. The sun shone, we were treated to a wonderful meal, and several hours of competitive talking passed in a flash. I’d probably still be sitting … Continued

You may be relieved to hear that I don’t have much to tell you today. It rained. I did processing and recorded some bugs. I listened to some podcasts. R and I made tiffin. I squelched round the garden and … Continued

R and I were out in the garden this afternoon, when this very fresh Peacock whizzed past us and landed on a leaf in the rose bed. You’ll note that it’s a bramble leaf, but though this offends me it’s … Continued

I went looking for beautiful Demoiselles this morning, at the site where I took this photo last year, but all I got was extreme embarrassment and a severely bruised shin, from stepping on a manhole cover that tilted, sending me … Continued

After a truly awful night, the first half disturbed by the heat and the second half by a succession of thunderstorms, I crawled out of bed this morning feeling thoroughly out of sorts. My mood wasn’t helped by the political … Continued

It was going on for 8pm when I took this photo, by which time I was starting to wonder what I was going to be able to post today. It’s been such a hot day that there was virtually nothing … Continued

Someone told me recently that Croome is a good site for Small Red-eyed Damselflies, a species I’d never photographed, and I walked all the way round the estate today, carrying two cameras in sticky heat, looking for some and becoming … Continued