Expert
There are now around a dozen male hairy-footed flower bees in the garden, and competition between them is getting fierce. Yesterday I saw the first female of the year, though sadly I spotted her at the exact moment when she … Continued
Feather-footed
I don’t know why the Romans felt that they needed a word to describe the state of being feather-footed, but apparently they did, and ‘plumipes’ was it. ‘Anthophora’, I think, is a Greek term for flowering plants. So this little … Continued
Stormy
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It was so stormy overnight that this morning I had to retrieve a large garden rubbish bucket, which yesterday was tucked into what’s normally a sheltered space between the patio wall and the back wall of the house, from half … Continued
Improvement
It was still cold and grey for much of the day, but at lunch time the cloud thinned briefly, and the light improved. I don’t think I’ve moved so fast in quite a while – bounding upstairs to grab the … Continued
