A sad day

Today I got rid of my K-reg Fiat Uno. This was my trusty get-to-work vehicle when I was last working at Portland College but I took it off the road after I retired in 2007, since which time it has stood on the drive, rusting and gathering green mould. Tony, from Simms Metals at Somercotes, gave me 20 quid, which was more or less what I expected for it - to think it cost me the princely sum of £350 in 2005! In the picture you see him start to lift the old banger towards the lorry. Unfortunately, I could not complete the filming as I was overcome with grief. No, sorry, let me rephrase this. The director Claudio Intoni applied his usual 'cock-up' technique: elsewhere you can see wonderful shots of the ground, and hear the director chuckling inanely to himself.

Hemiptera

... or bugs, to you! I saw these little beauties in the Périgord recently. The lower picture is some sort of bug which I found crawling on the patio at Issigeac. The upper pic shows a cluster of what I believe are called Gendarmes Suisses on a lime tree near Grignols. Aren't they lovely?