The first few ox eye daisies are appearing
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Lo and behold a short circuit was possible- ideal for a bit of fresh air under a low slung grey cloud. I didn't take my camera but did whip my phone out for a few snaps as it felt so nice to see somewhere new!
Due to the constant threat of rain we didn't pass another soul. It was fantastic to have the scene to ourselves, aside from a sleeping deer whom we disturbed. It bounced off into the field.
Below, black medick I think (awful picture but my phone is not happy about co-operation)
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You might be pleased to know that I won this morning's 'pinch and a punch' which has in recent years become a highly contested win each month. I've taken to keeping a score sheet. Thanks to a well timed strike while C was putting a sock on the score is one draw, three to C and one to me so I'm back in the running again. Strategy is everything. So determined was I to execute a successful turn-of-the-month greeting, that I even dreamed of it twice. C was dismayed so I tried not to show my smugness.
There have been so many orange tip butterflies taunting me with their pretty pop of colour; fluttering here and there yet virtually never landing. It's been a struggle to capture any form of picture with them in. However, I had to laugh as finally one looked like it was going to land. Snap, snap, snap with the camera only to find my beauty was only trying to land on another romancing couple of orange tips! Three for the price of one!!
Below, groundsel in flower and seed. C calls them 'fluffy' as they took over a patch of the flower meadow last year and it did look like a carpet of fluff. I think their name sounds like a hybrid of hansel and gretal though.
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