Good news, the plants, slugs and I have finally been blessed with rain, which has also dropped the temperatures by a lot. It made me gain some strength, and I had more energy for taking photos also. The rain even stopped for long enough for me to take a decent walk.

This is a jostaberry bush. These plants are hybrids of 3 original species: blackcurrant, coastal black gooseberry and European gooseberry:

This is St John's worth, Hypericum perforatum. The binomial name is due to the leaves having lots of little translucent glands in them, which makes them appear perforated against the light:

This is probably a Meadow brown butterfly:

This photogenic Roman snail had some damage to their shell that has now healed. Snails can repair cracks in their shells to an extent under the right circumstances:

This is a pretty little moth, Harpella forficella, which I don't think I had noticed around before:



This is a leopard slug. They come in many different colour variations. They eat dead plants and fungi, and they also hunt other slugs. Their mating ritual is very beautiful, but I haven't seen it in real life yet. I'm pleased with how the focus on this photo turned out, it can be tricky to get right with my little phone cam:

I visited the boys for a bit.

These are field thistle flowers, the colour is more of a pastel lavender in real life. The flies on there are probably Empis livida, a type of dance fly.

