Today we have spent much of our time perched in front of the television watching the celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee from London. Despite the wet weather it was a spectacular event, and at times brought tears to my eyes. It is at times like these when I love to be able to say that I am British.
During the afternoon I also took some time out to write another chapter or so for Take Two.At the moment I'm managing to write between 1500 and 2200 words a day. I did think the end was in sight but there's more to the story than I first thought.
I also spent a bit of time updating our personal website, which I have to admit I had neglected for a while. No matter it's now right up to date.
This evening whilst sitting in the garden one of our regular visitors drew our attention again, and that of the cat - we forever have to stop them catching it. We've no idea what it is, so here's a picture to see if anyone can help. It's the size of an insect, but looks like a tiny bird with a huge proboscis which it dips into the flowers to get the nectar.
Throughout the day we had been snacking on bits and pieces so didn't need a big dinner and settled on scrambled eggs on toast, but oh no we had no bread, so I quickly threw some together- an hour later we had our scrambled eggs on toast, with fresh tomato salsa.
Mystery solved thanks - It's a hummingbird Hawk Moth. Thank goodness for the internet.
ReplyDeleteHi Mark, I was going to say it looks like a Hawk Moth, so am glad I was right - my Dad is an entomologist (by hobby) and we have collected butterflies and moths for years.
ReplyDeleteBread looks delicious, wish I loved cooking as much as you do.
We'd never seen anything like that before- it really is beautiful. I just hope the cats don't get it during one of its visits.
DeleteThe bread was yummy, thanks.