Well, I am pretty sure the vaccination yesterday is doing something as when I woke up this morning, all my joints ached and were only soothed by a hot shower and an ibuprofen. In addition I felt tired and woolly. None of this was worrying or unexpected really, in fact, like I say, I am sure it is doing something, so actually a bit reassuring. (And clearly I am still a bit woolly.)
Yesterday evening I spotted a few interesting things in the garden after I had locked the chickens away for the day. In no particular order - chive flowers, poppies that could be a bit dodgy, set raspberries and strawberries and the display from the red hot pokers getting going.
Then after lunch today, I went to The Shack to feed the boys and see what was going on there. The vegetables are coming on OK although a bit more heat might be good for them, not least for helping the sweetcorn to germinate (now there are 4). I did meet some butterflies trying very hard to make new butterflies, which isn't easy when you are also flying (which they did, but had stopped that for the photo).
Walking round to the wildflower meadow, I noticed a lesser spotted woodpecker in the sycamore tree, so flushed with the success of the butterfly photo, I tried to capture that too. It is honestly in there somewhere, but I need a posh camera with a telephoto lens for that sort of thing!
Anyway, the wild flower meadow was looking fabulous as the clover and the oxeye daisies and the linseed are all going great guns, plus I did spot and photograph badly the first of the bee orchids. Soon there should be lots more with the sun and the rain that we have at the moment.
My favourite irises are coming out even more, and looking rather fabulous. The irises I covet are starting to come out too, in a neighbour's garden - jet black! I might get a photo of those tomorrow, but for today I bask in my purple and white ones!
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