Summer evening in the garden

More flowers from the garden. Looking lovely.

Sitting on the Patio, enjoying the birdsong and the flowers.

Solstice Blessings!

Solstice greetings to all my friends.

Giant Scabious, with bees.

Blandford Fly bite (again)

Got bitten by Blandford Fly on Thurs night (yet again 🙄)

Now have v v painful left upper arm between elbow and shoulder, with two bites within an inch of each other.

Been monitoring it, as I was hospitalised in 2014 for Sepsis from a bite, and nearly died. Horrible memories. 

Done the whole "drawing round the redness" which shows it isn't spreading, thank goodness. 

Seems OK, just v v painful, but stopping me using my left arm at all.

Which is v inconvenient, atm.

Maybe due to us having a pool for wildlife, we've just rejuvenated the pool, it's heaving with wildlife again BUT it also means a source of Blandford Fly, which is difficult for me as I KNOW I'm in trouble if I get bitten.

And yes, I was covered with anti bug spray, yet still got bitten.

Torrential rain today :(

My beautiful perennial flower borders :(  totally flattened by torrential rain tonight, as are the hay/flower meadows areas :( 

Trying to feel positive about great rainfall for the veg plot, but lots of plants destroyed.

Only climbing beans planted in plot, I held off planting out everything else, because if I'd planted them out, they'd have been smashed to bits, tonight.

As it is the beans are looking pretty sad.

#climatechange

#globalwarming