We had a week in Leicestershire visiting my cousin and uncle. Rather than buzzing around like busy bees, we stayed close to home and enjoyed the quiet peacefulness of the local countryside, museums, canals, meadows and woodlands. We took lots of photos of butterflies, flowers and animals, some scenery and some museum displays. Given the ongoing 30 degree plus temperatures, the locals were wilting, and the plants were mostly water stressed. It’s lucky that they don’t get the summer temperatures that we get in Melbourne (though maybe they would have air conditioning in their buildings if that were so).

I’m having technical issues with the blog website due to a change by the hosting service, that I will have to work out when I return to Melbourne – it makes adding images to a blog page challenging. So, rather than making an illustrated blog page I have annotated a gallery on google so check out the album and narrative at https://photos.app.goo.gl/yzPQ4ZyRM7HcAmU67