Butterflies arriving in great numbers is spectacular, Woody tends to roam the garden checking everything that moves. We have to have the odd chat about him becoming excitable with mongoose or monkeys going through, but butterflies play dodgems with him.

Rolling black-outs, some cities are 4 hours, ours is 2.5 hour periods, depending what stage, this may happen a couple of times a day. Very annoying when this country was referred to as "first world", now the grand backslide status into third world, with finance going into junk status.

Not only is it hot, tempers are frayed, at least we are being notified more accurately by mobile apps of late.