training

Sundays:-It is so wet and miserable today that we have had to amuse ourselves by training the boss. Here he is giving us a Bonio after a lot of whining and moaning (it takes a lot of effort, really) when he knows he should be taken for a walk but he insists on standing at the window and talking about moving to France. Will he take me? Should I be worried? I hear the poodles there are very haughty. Is that halo above his head significant?

aliens have landed

harri appears to have grown a middle hind leg. And she still can't catch me.

more bastard balm

a better (less rain and wind) picture of this beautiful rare deadnettle.

creeping jenny

the only Jenny I know is no creep. Why creeping jenny I know not but it was also known as motherwort, roving sailor, and meadow runagates, presumably because it creeps all over the place. It is very similar to yellow pimpernel (none in flower round here yet) but characteristically as here the flowers are only half open. The woods are full of it now.

muddy waters

the sort of bog that lousewort likes; it's the small pink thing at the bottom, you can also see the bottom of a larger black louse

lousewort

How did this pretty little flower get its unfortunate name? Apparently,it was believed to infest sheep with lice. It may just be that the liver fluke and lousewort live in the same damp, boggy places. This is just your common or garden lousewort, the juicy red flashy marsh lousewort comes out soon around Kit Hill. It has a rattle very like yellow rattle hence red rattle. To me it looks like purple toothwort but smaller. See this page http://tamar-valley-life.blogspot.com/2006/04/toothwort.html