You know, the type that doesn't serve delicious cocktails in the Grassmarket, the real kind, are here in abundance. They are fantastic – petrolly wings, long delicate bodies. They zip about the garden all day but particularly at the moment, about 4 o'clock and the sun is beginning to dip. It's mating season for dragonflys and they seem to be absolutely loving it!
There are also all manner of butterflys, enormous black and yellow ones, soft white ones, little orange ones – they're all over the place and make me come over all Cinderella / Snow White (though have resisted singing to them!)
The crows look like magpies and are just as cruel looking as the ones back home. But the humming birds are fantastic – shimmering green necks and flashing blue and red strips, there is one in particular that keeps trying to get into the windows of Andrew's office – I think it sees its reflection & keeps coming a tapping. There are little brown birds that zip in and out of the bird bath in our front garden & what must be a robin blue breast – exactly the same as its red cousin but with a baby blue chest.
The geckos are quite cute & apparently there is a camelion in the garden (in the big bush next to the chilli plants, round from the herb patch). Think it must be a good one because I've not seen it yet!
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