I was sitting on the garden bench basking in the evening sunshine. All around the plants there were butterflies flitting and flying – like me they were enjoying the warmth of the sun.

One, a comma butterfly, landed on the bench next to me.

After a few seconds it flew off but then returned and alighted …

On my knee. It fluttered its wings Click below

The butterfly seemed quite content to rest on me and I felt honoured to share this moment in time with such a beautiful and fragile creature.

I have started taking buckets of water to the geese every morning and evening

See how dry the fields are as we enter day two of a hosepipe ban. I’m practicing a rain dance!

Eat your heart out Prince Harry – who is visiting the UK and visited a charity that supports children who have lost a parent. There he was invited to take part in a session of yoga with goats!

He found some spilled pellets outside the duck run and, because he’ll try anything, he decided to eat them