A number of male Orange Tip butterflies and female Holly Blue butterflies were to be seen in my garden today. At least one Large White and one Small White visited the Honesty too.

I took some nice photos of a female Holly Blue butterfly on the Firethorn (Pyracanta) bush. I think she was overpositing - egg-laying! However, I had one of those "I hate computers" moments when the software unexpectedly crashed and I lost all those photographs. I did get a photo of a male Orange Tip butterfly resting on a Forget-me-not.



I spent most of the day outside in the sunshine getting messy by cleaning the patios. Spread some chicken manure pellets around the base of the plants; the garden now has an interesting fragrance!



For regular readers of this journal, I thought I'd include a photo of me. My consultant was happy with my blood counts at the hospital clinic this last week.