Magnet
While R was pushing a napping grandchild around the park this afternoon, I went on an invertebrate hunt. The spring bedding has been dug up and all the flower beds are standing empty, waiting for the summer planting scheme to … Continued
Fastidious
While the Boy Wonder was having his pram nap this afternoon, I made straight for the patch of Geranium phaeum which provided me with good invertebrate photos last Thursday. Today it was less busy, possibly because it was hotter, but … Continued
Synchronicity
It’s just two days since I posted photos of a red mason bee on Geranium phaeum – a plant I’d never seen before in my life – and a male blue mason bee, which is a species I see quite … Continued
Bluebell bee
While the Boy Wonder was taking a pram nap this afternoon, pushed around the park by his doting grandfather, I went on a small bug hunt, and found some small bugs. In this case the small bug is a sweat … Continued
Under-floor heating
R and I went to Cardiff today, where the Boy Wonder seemed happy to see us after a fortnight’s gap. We noticed another step change in his vocabulary and grammar, and one or two behavioural changes (not all of them … Continued
