Male Holly has been flowering here in Northern England for a few weeks; lots of trees have buds that have yet to open. Apparently not uncommon to have a second flowering late in the year but the first time I’ve noticed it

Surely ‘normal for Norfolk’? 🤣 That’s a term I use a lot in our household!

Glad you made it to Imber! Stunning location and amazing grassland for miles around on each side

Garden Parsley Petroselinum crispum gone to seed?

A trip to Ben Lawers b needed then!

We saw lots of Carex aquatilis when we went ‘off piste’ to get to serpentine outcrops and didn’t Matt Harding find lots of Carex rariflora on slopes just beyond outcrops last year? You can see I like sedges can’t you! Also Cerastium fontanum subsp. scoticum

You could always try for the Hobcarton Crag population. Less of a walk/climb than Meikle Kilrannoch

Which year for Desert Sessions? My fave is the one with PJ Harvey way back when

A lovely Chimney Sweeper moth - it feeds on pignut

Did you see the Eleocharis mammillata? Quite a lot of it in the quarry as I recall. Are you in the Dales tomorrow/this week? If so, let me know as I’ll be in the area doing some monitoring work