They certainly don’t seem to do any harm to my lavender, nor to my rosemary if they get at it when I’m not watching. They’re both about the same age, I’ve not been in this garden that long.

I’ve oddly only ever found them on my lavender!

I wonder how long it will take for the usual suspects to whatabout this away as a trivial detail.

In my head, cow parsley is a biennial, although the internet tells me it can be a short-lived perennial. This one is at least four years old. Technically a weed, but I like it!

After subsidence left a country road riddled with almighty craters, workmen were sent out to clean up the mess. It all went awry, however, when their own lorry fell victim to a large hole in the road. Contractors from Stabilised Pavements were working at Butleigh Drove near Walton in Somerset when their lorry rolled into a ditch that had given way on the uneven surface. The workers were forced to abandon the vehicle after it settled at a 45-degree angle, metres from a sign reading “skid risk, max speed 20mph”.