It's the Ta Da moment

         I'm pleased with it. I prefer colourful.

 Looks like it will be oilseed rape out in the back field this coming year - it is a bit early for sowing winter cereals. Haven't tractors got enormous lately? I think it has snuck up on us because the basic shape has stayed the same. When I think of Uncle Jack's little grey Fergie - the one he used for the jobs that were a bit much for Betty the horse to manage on her own.

Thanks Gill (and Clare Balding)  the dragonfly was a Red Darter. Now we seriously don't need any more white butterflies, but we have been very short of the colourful ones this year.

Miscellaneous

 We have had a lot of dragonflies this summer, the ones with red bodies that I have yet to look up and put a name to. This one was perched on the edge of a tatty old bucket, and I couldn't get a decent angle to take a picture of all of it, but it didn't seem to mind me poking the camera straight in it's face.

 I had to take a picture of this and take it in to look it up in the book. Nemophilia.

 The centre of Cosmos is a stupendous sight when magnified.

 Got a bit tired of just draping a tea towel over my new kitchen friend, so I have chucked together enough patches to make it a tailored cover. I toyed with buying one, but they are a terrible price, and so boring - shades-of-beige totally fails to excite me.

Ah the joys of the healthy country life. Here is the tractor pulling a grain trailer past our back fence. In front of the tractor is what looks like a bit of dust. It is actually a cloud so big and thick that it is hiding a complete combine harvester. A good job we don't suffer from asthma.

Finally some happy family news. One of our daughters called to say she has got a new job - at last, after some gruelling years, a full time permanent job in a place that she loves, taking care of things that she loves. A place where they have said to her things like "You are new here aren't you? Would you like to see the Gutenberg Bible?" I hope she feels as proud of herself as she surely deserves to be!