Here goes nothing.

Time for the big experiment. Let's see if this snailey internet connection can cope with a picture.

Nope! Well I will just have to say it in words. Painted Ladies - the butterflies that fly all the way from Morocco to the UK. We had just the one when there was a big invasion a few weeks ago. Now on the Buddleia flowers we have at least four: new generation, home grown. It is hard to know if this is a good year for butterflies, being in a new area, and it being the first year we have had our own Buddleia, but we have seen a lot of them, in many varieties this summer.

I took some good photos. But if they are not going to upload in the first five minutes, I reckon they are not going to upload at all.

Sort of takes the point of blogging away if I can' t share to good things.

Boy has it been a long time!

First we lost the internet. Then we moved. Then it took best part of two months for the people who look after the wires to tell us that the one to our new home was so bad that we could never get internet service, and no, they didn't see it as their duty to renew it.

So now I have what is called on the box a "dongle", and I am trying to catch up. It is very slow, and I really don't know how it is likely to cope with pictures when I get around to any. But it IS there, and I am now able to pronounce loud and clear that I LOVE my new home, and I am having so much fun getting everything sorted out.