Adrian Brown
@adrianbrown
Digital archivist, erstwhile archaeologist, author, hedgehog hotelier, Director of Knowledge & Information at UK Parliament. All views my own.
Surprising to find some yellow rattle #StillFlowering on Butser Hill #WildFlowerHour
A mass of scabious and common catsear on the upper slopes of Butser today #WildFlowerHour #StillFlowering
I’ve never seen so much wild parsnip, very much #stillflowering below Butser Hill today #Wildflowerhour
The handful of butterflies I actually managed to get a pic of from today’s walk: chalk hill blue, small copper, painted lady, hedge brown
Another dead cert for my #5DebutAlbumsSF2 list - a stunning late career solo debut which I like even more in retrospect than I did on release
I love the blown sound on this - matching hazy, blissed out psychedelia to huge hooks - a top contender for #5DebutAlbumsSF2
Hard to see anything displacing this for my #5DebutAlbumsSF2 top spot - punk compressed, distilled and reassembled
Ivy stems entirely encasing a young oak #WildFlowerHour #ClimbingPlants
Ivy youngster scampering up the ancient churchyard yew at Steep #WildFlowerHour #ClimbingPlants
Field bindweed with varying colourations #WildFlowerHour #ClimbingPlants
Two well placed knot holes in the back of this owl box on today’s walk always make it look like it has an occupant peering out
Friday’s hedgehog is eating very crunchily in the feeding station (sound up)
Thanks as always Richard. And, as always, this doesn’t get easier - I’ll go with: 1: Pixies - Surfer Rosa (5 pts) 2: Alvvays - S/T 3: Ash - 1977 4: X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents 5: Dead Kennedy - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables #5DebutAlbumsSF1
Gwennie had tested and found wanting the cooling mat we bought her, preferring a lower fi approach to coping with the heatwave
A predator of #PollinatorPals, I spotted this flower crab spider lurking in a foxglove #WildFlowerHour
A greater bee fly on jack-by-the-hedge #WildFlowerHour #PollinatorPals
Tiny black beetles, beyond me to identify, on wild radish, oxeye daisy and stinking iris, and an ?aphid? on a perennial cornflower #WildFlowerHour #PollinatorPals