I went out into the garden this morning and spent a couple of hours tidying. I trimmed the dead flowers off some of the Lavender and Hyssop bushes. I cut back two of the Buddleias. It was quite challenging to make sure that I didn't get any scratches: I look very healthy but my blood counts are abnormal so that scratches don't heal like they should. I will hear the results of a recent bone marrow biopsy on Tuesday.

Whilst I was working in the front garden, I had the company of a Hummingbird Hawkmoth on two occasions this morning, visiting Verbena bonariensis flowers. After I'd come in, I spotted one from the kitchen window and I think it was feeding from the Ceratostigma flowers. They are truly fascinating to watch but they move extremely fast so that it's almost impossible to get a photograph.