Lots — and I mean lots — of butterflies around recently, especially on the buddleia plants in the park across the road. When there are as many butterflies as this, you notice how they seem almost to fly in formation. Not quite the Red Arrows, though. Mostly the Cabbage Whites actually, although we did see a pretty brown or tortoiseshell one a few days ago hovering round some flowers near our garden shed. Our book of British wildlife revealed it as a peacock butterfly (isn’t education wonderful?). With luck, next summer (or maybe even this autumn if they get a move on and grow a bit) we might be able to see butterflies on the verbena we planted last week in our own garden.