Some incredible duck diversity was on this little market table!

Interesting artwork that I thought looked like a giant slug giving a tiny, mysterious creature the slowest hitchhike in history

A historic ‘Table of Kindred and Affinity’ on a church windowsill in the small town of Bicester. Drawn up by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1563, it acted as the local community’s definitive rulebook for marriage boundaries.

The guardian of a little traditional English bakery we wandered into – this straw bear takes his job very seriously!

What I learnt was an Orange-tip butterfly – out checking on the foliage – which agreed to pose for the camera.

A sea of buttercups and dandelions (as well as all the nice bird twittering that can’t be shown in a photograph). Summer in the English countryside is officially in full swing.

A bright Green Sawfly catching some sun… (as well as teaching me what a Sawfly is)

4 little goslings out on a paddling lesson in Nottinghamshire

The sawdust is flying as these 2 blokes tackle these logs with serious precision (a contest at the Farm Fest that clearly gets taken very seriously)…

…and this is what can be carved with a chainsaw!