Common lizard, 3rd March 2025

 

Spotted about 15:30

Harry Potter and the wardrobe malfunction

Too much butterbeer;

Runs down my leg; these damned robes.

Accio penis!

Two storms and a sun bath

Spring cleaning yucca.

Flower spikes and dusty nests.

Assailed by daggers.

Seals and turnstones

The fourth house thing didn't work out. So I'm renting a while, within walking distance of the first childhood home I remember; a walk too from the coast.

My view has changed.

Gatekeeper 2024

 At Exbury Gardens on Wednesday 10th July; and red admirals too.

Marbled White

Swarms of pale, scantily clad yoof heading for the beach in Bournemouth yesterday. A thinner, pinker trickle coming back the other way.

The sound of a distant moped resolved into a hornet flying through my bedroom window at 6am. Beautiful insect, which fortunately left voluntarily.

Small Copper

 I've just taken a second crop off the alpine strawberries. The garden is wild and my trousers are damp and covered in grass seed. Small bumble bees writhe in the glorious yellow stamens of St. John's Wort as though in ecstasy; the world is abuzz.