Heatwave

July suddenly decided it was a summer month, after all. The temperatures in the high 20s C. Took a walk through the oak woods at N., which were cool and pleasant, and came back across the heath, where the sun is sweltering and there's no shade and the sandy soil absorbs the heat, and where I failed to photograph any Silver-studded Blue butterflies dancing over the heather. Ach, sometimes the heath is like that. Shows you only prickly gorse and Wolf Spiders...

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