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Absolute unadulterated genius. And you thought this only happened in Naked Gun...

Tatsfield in the Doomsday Book
My wife isn't as impressed by this as I am... This is the village I grew up in. It's pretty small, not tiny, but it has a lot of history attached. That's it, really, just thought I'd let you know.

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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