Autumn musings

Superb autumn sunshine again today. I feel I should be doing something, but the ground is too hard to dig at the moment. Digging when the soil is in this condition creates too many fissures which quickly attract sheltering toads and toadlets, which will probably end up on the tine of my fork at a later stage. I'd rather wait until the soil condition is right.

I could have cleared out the 'tomoato tardis', but he blighted tomatoes are still yielding the odd fruit. Instead I spent a while photographing the abundant insect life. Lots of seven spot ladybirds, so nice to see after the influx of harlequin ones in previous years. This one was feeding on a fennel flower. The self-seeded borage was attracting multitudes of honey and bumble bees, lots of different species.