Daddy, what's them for?

FOUR?!?!
One of my criteria, when wondering what to "put up" is how likely I am to be able to repeat the shot.
Another is ... "If in doubt ask Alice".
1. Neither of these is likely to be repeatable.
2. I no longer have "an Alice" for guidance.
:¬(

Jerra came through for a bit of a "sesh" in the garden. While not "seshing" Hawkeye spotted a bit of a ripple in the pond. He fished out a moth ... decidedly "Bed raggled". It was duly fed on a honey/water mix and sort of recovered, unless the excess solution gummed up its works. We, provisionally, identified it as a male "Emperor Moth"; not that it looked very "imperial" at the time, though it did progress from one visible antenna to a matched pair of antennae.
I would have been happy with the Emperor but I was unfortunate enough to glance out of the window, at the wrong moment, when I beheld a cloud ... The like of what which I b'ain't seen afore. Hence the multiplicity of shots.

One cloud shot I went out for, the other, just for fun, was through the window.
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"Wingspan 40-60 mm.

The spectacular Emperor moth is Britain's only resident member of the Saturniidae family. It is reasonably common over much of Britain, occupying moorland and open country."
Oh NO it isn't, NEVER set eyes on one in damnear 75 years.
"The males, which have bright orange hindwings, fly during the daytime in search of the greyer females, which fly at night. Both sexes are on the wing in April and May.

The fully grown caterpillar is green with black hoops containing yellow wart-like spots, and feeds on moorland plants such as heather (Calluna) and bramble (Rubus)." 
(Neither of which can be found in any abundance hereabouts.)

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