bombus of the week!

Bee on Catnip Parnassus. I grew this plant from seed (from the matchless www.chilternseeds.co.uk/) in 2000. It has moved house once and always returned reliably, this year reaching the heady height of approximately 5'10". The bees love all the tiny blue flowers.

Bee on Scabious (from a box of mixed 'butterfly and bee' seed).

This is the Bee of the Week! An amateur macrophotographer's dream: a completely exhausted bee, literally falling off his or her (or it's?) Feverfew flower (sown by fairies in the night). I was using my new lens reversal ring and also tubes 1+2; when i uploaded, i could not believe that i'd been able to get so close to this amazing creature.

The poor thing was stuperous enough to mistake my finger for vegetation.

So, following advice i once heard on the radio, i put a spot of honey in front of the bee. The tongue emerged instantly and when i looked, half an hour later, the bee had flown away.

Bobbie and her Cat Pack

 Stiggy in the Rowan tree, Tuesday 28th June

Phantom limb problem strikes the great ginger parolympian

 Thursday 30th June:

Birch Tree Challenge

 

 

Congratulations Boris. Thanks Bobbie

Moody Morse 

Kitten alchemy

                       Queenie sneaking a nap beside Boris

                                          ....and Bobbie

 Kitten milestone at 11 weeks:
 curtains conquered Thursday July 7th

                                Boris enjoying the greenhouse

 

                                    Thinking about the Outside World

       Park, interrupted

                                     Stormy wet day, Friday 8th July

                                          Worried nanny

        First spontaneous trip outside - Saturday 9th July

                                         

                      Monday 11th July in Sally's garden, Nottingham

                               With her great friend Seamus, son of Sal

                        The Inspector allows Queenie
                       to eat breakfast beside him

 And this seems to be yet another waif taking up residence at the Anderson Shelter. Very odd and sad story: the lodger came back from walking the dog with her clinging to his lapels. Apparently a pair of Romanians had approached his bench, asked him if he liked cats and then whipped this tiny creature out of a rucksack and thrust it at him before running away. (Wednesday 13th July)

 She looks about 6 months old and is incredibly nervous of Bobbie and the other cats (manifesting in one long stream of feline bad language.)

 She also appears to be pregnant......