Fine pictures of beautiful bugs. It's good to see bright colours when at the moment everything outside looks grey in the UK.

Also good to read the word 'rain'. All we see and hear about Oz at the moment is heat, drought and fire. Hopefully you're not affected and other places will get rain too.

Steve

No Wensleydale in Tesco on Thursday, neither prepacked nor on the deli counter.

Is it just a local problem or have the Wensleydale cheese elves gone on strike?

Steve

Had a nice chat with the checkout lady at Tesco this afternoon. That's what normally happens if it's not too busy. Go in the evening and you can get half a life story before it's time to pay. Among other things, she told me about finally managing to take a photo of her camera-shy teenage granddaughter when she took her for a meal last night.

Steve

Annoying, but at least you know who did it and can presumably negotiate an amicable settlement with yourself.

Back in the days of the Montego, the slightest touch would badly crack a plastic bumper. Automobile plastic seems to have become more fit for purpose since then.

Steve

Impressive, both visually and technically. Well worth the time spent finding the right angle. The tree seems to be reaching out to grasp the photographer (and viewer:shock.

Are you sure it's a tree and not an elderly Ent from Middle Earth?

Steve

One of the most striking (groan...) lightning pictures I've seen for a while, thanks to the green light being aligned with the lightning. Did you have to wait ages for that alignment, or can you control the weather???

Steve

Beautiful pictures of a fascinating landscape. The shapes, surface textures, light and shadows are stunning. Well worth the wait to see them!

Strangely, the shapes of the dunes remind me of the shapes of some of the chalk landscapes of southern England (minus vegetation, of course).

Steve

Dwarf bread (see Disc World books by Terry Pratchett). "Various forms of dwarf bread can be used as weapons, e.g. battle muffins and drop scones" (Feet of Clay). The Scone of Stone is made of it (The Fifth Elephant)

It sometimes appears in my house, too. Best not to comment on it or its use as a weapon may be demonstrated.

Steve

Gotta sympathise with local dogs (and their owners) when all those bombs are going off.

When there was a naval base at Portland, they used to hold weekly wars miles out to sea. Humans could hardly hear anything, but our dog was terrified, digging and chewing anything within reach. Once tried to chew through the plastic pipe connecting cistern to toilet.

Steve

You can do it that way, but you don't have to type anything if you don't want to.

Left click in the search box and a Search Tools tab appears. Click on Date Modified, a drop-down menu appears. Click on Today and datemodified:today appears in the search box. Now left click on today (i.e. to the right of the semi-colon) and a calendar appears. You can now click on any date to search for a specific date or click and drag to search for a range of dates. And all done without typing anything at all.

If you want to repeat a recent search, look in Recent Searches rather than Date Modified and click on the search you want to do.

Steve