Blue-Tailed Damselfly

I woke up feeling decidedly unwell this morning.  A bit of a yukky throat, not sore, but not comfortable and a feeling of nausea.  Hoping that when I helped put up the fence last week that the back neighbour wasn't carrying anything.  Stupidly I wasn't wearing my mask.  Just didn't think at the time because I was out in the garden. 

Fortunately as the morning wore on I started to feel a bit better, although still very tired.  I did some work in the front garden, but as the garden waste collection bin is packed as tight and full as it can be, and I had filled all the spare bags I had, once I filled the round gardman bin I stopped.  Partly because I just couldn't be bothered lugging it round that back and all the way up the hill to my rather large pile of garden waste that I am hoping will gradually break down.

I spent some time by the pond, trying to see if I could see any of the fish, but no luck.  Couldn't even see any newts.  There was a lovely male Blue-tailed Damselfly which I managed to photograph.

Just look at those fabulous colours in his head and thorax.  Just incredible.

There were also the usual pond skaters.

There are quite a few of these lovely orange flowers growing on my front bank, but I am not sure what they are, I believe it is part of the Crocosmia/Iris family.

In the vegetable garden:

The beans are growing well and I picked quite a few today and dropped a handful off to my neighbour.  I hope she enjoys them as much as I do.  I had a few with dinner tonight and they are really lovely.

A Harlequin Lady bird.  Hopefully eating all the aphids/black flies on my Dalmatian bean leaves!

.  Day 28/Week 4:  103 miles!  Plus I still have three days to go until the end of the month, so very chuffed to have gone over my 100 miles goal this month.