This and that & Some great garden pics!

A good belly laugh is in order when you read about the church's attempt to shut down Wonga.com by expanding "credit unions".  It turns out "the church" is one of Wonga's "Investors".  The even more stupid idea is does the "Church" think that credit unions are not going to screw the poor unfortunates who default on pay day loans?

A rather worrying story about a Squirrel is infected with the plague" ok its in the USA but there must be 100's of thousands of the critters and its obviously going to spread like wildfire!!

Car hackers!  well most cars nowadays are just computers with wheels! it turns out that cars could be controlled by "other people" with the appropriate technology.  I wonder when the first accident is going to happen when the drivers defence is "I was hacked!"

Its only 3 days ago that I hacked down a couple of plants that had fallen into the pond.  I was surprised yesterday to see what I thought were the "green shoots of recovery" and dismissed the growth as maybe a "death throw" of the plants. I looked this afternoon and incredibly! the hacked down plants have started to grow!

The Arum Lilly stubs are reaching for the sky

While the bullrush stalks are also on the move

We spotted this wonderful "Elephant hawk moth Caterpillar" in the garden this afternoon. It was in a rather exposed position so once I had snapped the pic I moved it.

The sweet peas are looking quite good at the moment

While the Dahlias are being mobbed by the bees

We always try to encourage the Nasturtiums to cover the ground in order to keep down the weeds and they are just beginning to be effective

Finally - - - a funny pic from the sky cam which has a partial view of the birdfeeders since I re-positioned them.

The squirrel hangs by his tail and feet to the top bar and must have just taken a peanut from the round feeder before rolling back up onto the bar!
Enjoy the day  

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Or this one just to see  the streaming birdfeeder cam