Peacock Butterfly

The good, the bad, and the sad

The good thing is seeing peacock butterflies on the phlox in my garden this morning. I’ve hardly seen a butterfly in the garden this year.

The bad thing is the surprise arrival of scaffolders at my neighbours house, they are having the render and rotten timbers ripped off and the whole then re-rendered. It’s very messy, very noisy and I’m alarmed that the house martins will abandon, the scaffold and workmen are an arms length away from the nest with the parent birds clearly alarmed. The chicks seemed almost ready to fledge yesterday, I hope they do and quickly. My neighbours have gone away for a few days. We get on well, but I’m not happy at the timing of all this.

And very sad to hear about the sudden death of long time blipper Knottman. RIP.