At a time when many people who live to the south of us are becoming increasingly hot, bothered, burnt and badly in need to some rain, we continue to enjoy our usual drecht weather, with grey skies, wind and rain broken by very occasional sunny intervals.
We are, however, keep cheerful by our garden rabbits, some of which are becoming rather too bold. At the moment their main diet....
....is the grass and clover kept short and, presumably, succulent along the paths by occasional visits from a man with a strimmer.
If only the rabbits would stick to this diet. Unfortunately, being rabbits and, therefore, of a mischievous bent, they're beginning to widen their diet by....
.... sampling some of the flowers we've so lovingly planted, their favourite appearing to be the pansies. Worse, while I have no direct proof I'm very suspicious that the damage being done to my carefully nurtured broccoli may also be caused by the rabbits.
The rabbits are bad enough but acceptable because they have the 'Ahhhh!' factor, something which does not apply to the appearance, with the rain, of the first slugs we've seen in ages.
In the very occasional sunny intervals some of the butterflies keep trying to fly, particularly....
....the speckled woods (above) and the painted ladies, but this continues to be a miserable year, not only for the butterflies but also for the insects in general.
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