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Monday 30th June 2025 - What A Result, Turning Brown, Butterflies and Jellyfish

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    Overstrand Life
  • 6 days ago
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I'm totally impressed with the result Fix My Street was able to achieve, regarding the broken tarmac pavement in Cliff Road. Reported to them on 24th June followed by Norfolk County Council acknowledging the problem on 25th June and then on the 27th, we saw the areas in question had been filled with tarmac. The area is no longer a potential trip hazard; now that's what I call a result! 


I know some are struggling but I’m loving this sunny warm and sometimes quite hot, weather.  Temperatures peaked on Saturday and come the evening it was 30°C in our bedroom.  There was nothing for it but to sleep on top of the bed clothes, that was, until around dawn when it cooled enough to pull covers over us.  Bananas ripen quickly when it’s warm resulting with a bunch, on our fruit dish, fast turning brown.  I’ve never made banana cake but on Saturday, before it got too warm, I decided this was the best way (other than a banana split) to use them.  I found a recipe and the resulting cake is good and moist, without being squidgy or sticky.  This was far better than the recipe I tried out earlier in the week for lemon drizzle muffins.  Neither of us liked the muffins texture - they were fed to the local gulls and crows.  In future I’ll stick with lemon drizzle cake and as for the rest of the lemon curd, I made as one of the muffin’s ingredients, this will make a good filling for a sponge.

 

There must have been a ‘hatching’ of white butterflies on Friday.  There were loads in our garden and in the hedgerows.  Fortunately, Peter has the brassicas on his vegetable plot covered with insect netting, which stopped the butterflies laying their eggs.  We walked along the field edges, early Saturday morning.  It was already warm enough to bring out insects, in particular there were good numbers of meadow browns and ringlet butterflies.  This morning there was a gatekeeper in our conservatory, which I was able to cover and move back into the garden.  Gatekeepers are pretty well the last of the butterflies in this area to emerge; they particularly love blackberry blossom.  It’s been a fairly reasonable year for butterfly sightings, starting with holly blues and orange tips as well as commas, red admirals and peacocks emerging from their hibernation.  There have been a few speckled woods in our garden, as well as a couple of painted ladies which I think were stopping off after their migration.  Over the coming months, we may see some more types.

 

While we were walking on the beach this morning, I spotted a moon jelly fish, I took a photo of it and this features as today’s photo.  I am not sure if it was dead or alive but not wishing to risk damaging it, by turning it over, I left it on the sands to be taken back into the sea, at the next high tide.


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