And a gatekeeper, a sign of high summer, so they say.

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Finally the Small White, a very common butterfly, but quite hard to capture as it hardly ever stops moving. I was lucky enough to capture this one at rest for a second.

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And this is the surprisingly dull underside of the Peacock, almost irridescent black.

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This is a Peacock, slightly fuzzy looking, but that's because it's quite fuzzy...

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This one shows the beautiful colouration on the underside of the Painted Lady's wings.

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We have several butterfly species in the garden at the moment, but not all are as easy to photograph as this Painted Lady.

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And one of the poor bloke I painted very badly in the cockpit...

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Here's a nose shot...

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Recently started making model aircraft again for the first time since I was a teenager (many years ago...). My first effort as this tropical liveried Spitfire Mk V

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Just had a shower, started singing Army by ben Folds Five. I think this is a sign. Buggered if I know what the sign is though...

Went to the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend. The grinning idiot on the left you might recognise from my profile. That's right, it's me. The dashing Finn on the right you might or might not recognise, depending on your degree of interest in motorsport, as Marcus Gronholm, world rally champion in 2000 and 2002. Inset is his 2006 Focus WRC. Bloody hell! Note how tall Marcus is - I'm not exactly miniature at 6ft2, and he's towering over me! The rest of the day, a birthday present to my petrolhead father, was brilliant, including seeing my brother (who took these shots) as a giant on the big screen, listening to a McLaren F1 car starting up five feet from us, and watching Jenson Button tearing up the strip in his Honda, completely obscuring the opposition. Fantastic day...
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ants 'use an internal pedometer'
The way they found out about this is frankly bizarre. There is, as often noted, a very fine line between genius and madness, and I think these guys have a foot firmly planted on either side. Hopefully it won't spoil the surprise too much if I say "Ants on stilts anyone?"...