On Monday morning Buddy
and I walked up to the household waste and recycling centre and Stockton to
check on their opening hours. This
stretch of the Grand Union has very few rubbish disposal points and I needed to
get rid of a couple of bags of refuse that have built up.
On our way there we walked
through Stockton cutting and I was reminded of the many days through spring and
summer that we spent butterflying there this year. It is a good site for Small Blues and we saw
our first on May 23rd this year. They are tiny butterflies, usually
only about 3/4“ across, and are not very common:
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I’m including this picture
from spring to remind us of the warmer days we had then
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The undergrowth and
flowers have all long gone now
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This was Karen taking a
picture of a Grizzled Skipper in the same location on May 5th this
year
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I mentioned in the last
blog entry that we had had to go shopping over the weekend and it tickled me that
we had to find a poof shop. We have been
making do with an old collapsible table to rest our feet on at night.
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We now have a nice comfy
poof to share
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Frosty towpath on our
return from our first walk on Tuesday morning
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