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VIDEO of SIX SPOT BURNET MOTH - ZYGAENA FILIPENDULAE

VIDEO of LARGE WHITE BUTTERFLY - PIERIS BRASSICAE

VIDEOS of FEMALE BANDED DEMOISELLE - CALOPTERYX SPLENDENS

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FLIGHT OF THE DEMOISELLE

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INTERMISSION & iTEAM PUTTING 'i' BACK IN TEAM - PHASE 4

Well I will be a son of a gun!

I has been quite an unpredictable spring and summer so far! Started off cold and raining and then went straight from that cold, windy and wet weather into too bloody hot!

Everyone was like 'oh at last' and then into 'ooh its too hot, my children cannot sleep, we have cold showers every night!' and before long I was doing the same!

Then all of a sudden after weeks of what seemed like much more intense and brighter sunlight than usual a series of storms came making it extremely muggy and then it went cool. Only just like the Spring the cool weather has been accompanied by wind and rain?! Bar humbug!

There were some nice moments and only yesterday I was walking back from somewhere after getting a bite to eat and walking home in a westerly direction wearing sunglasses with the sun low in the sky and just the most perfect breeze! Hmm perfection!

Added to this a series of NHS run-ins and two extremely dodgy cameras, one I am still stuck with and I am waiting for the glue on the grip to dry before using it again. It had one day yesterday not being used and now I have added finishing touches....OF GLUE it has another 24 hours, sounds like a film, to dry.

I moved the laptop to the cabinet to my left thinking it would be more efficient having it there and great to work with but this was not to be. Only now and today am I typing this out while glancing into a direction that does not cause pain and dizziness after five or ten minutes. I have worked on my living room too and the Ottoman that now has a set of four Vivariums sitting on top of it as now been turned 90 degrees so if I look 90 degrees to my left I look straight at it.

The metal mesh lidding was loose on on partition and that is currently drying, if not already dry, too! I am looking forward to rigging up a set of light to my own design for these cages and indeed may end up with different wattages with each depending on what animals I keep in them.

At the moment those I would like to keep would be a Hyla (Tree-Frog), or Hyperolius (Small African Tree Frog), in another I always like those tiny Jewelled Geckos found in Egypt. Maybe even a pair Peruvian Beauty Spiders?! Now me keeping an invertebrate?! That would shock a great deal of people and would likely be the first time I have ever done it. Or at least in nearly 40 years that is for sure!

Of course there are the usual suspects that I would grab with both hands like alpestris apuanus and Bombina pachypus. The cages will take about two weeks before completion and around that time there are some reptile shows going on.

So for this year I have also NOT ordered any new Orchids, more is the pity, and no idea when I will start purchasing hardware to build the first of two PC Computers?!

Also I seem to have had a bit of a time out due to the falling apart of my Olympus Stylus SP-820UZ Camera that I wanted so badly and thought would be perfect. In some aspects it was better than the Camera it replaced, and I do not mean the faulty Nikon L310 I took back to Argos and ended up with this one, I mean the competent for what it was Nikon S8200 Coolpix. I am still trying to get over the fact that the best and most reliably performing camera is the one with the smallest objective lens?! Bloody unbelievable. Anyway the grip of the Olympus finally fell off entirely with the gentlest of tugs. I spent two days gluing it back on but did not work due to the cheap nasty sticky rice paper like substance they use to glue things to heir cameras?! Yuck. So I am now on the third day of having no camera and I have now used an epoxy resin to glue the grip on as previous attempts with rubber cement (plumbing glue more or less lol) and silicone sealant have been quite unsuccessful in all honesty. The funny thing is if the epoxy resin work it only takes 5 minutes to harden and I could grab the camera and go out. Only it is 9.22am now and has been raining for 30 minutes and according to the Met Office app, which is admittedly WRONG 80% of the time, will continue to rain until 7pm tonight and as I cycle everywhere and do not possess the necessary waterproof gear to protect both me and my equipment then it is a no, no. That is one reason I always look at the Pentax K-30 SLR, think that is what it's model name is, as it is waterproof and would be good for what I do. Only I also want to do detailed close up shots and so the Nikon D800E SLR is also wanted.

But out of the four main CAMERA companies Pentax and Canon are the only ones that have not screwed me thus far. I used to love Pentax when I was a youngster and wanted to get into photography, somehow ended up with a Minolta X-300 but I still loved it. But I am still a while away from getting the equipment I really need to move these blogs up a couple of notches so I am not sweating yet over the choices, lol. Besides by then there may well be another waterproof Pentax that does all that the D800E can. Or the D800E will be more affordable?! YEAH RIGHT!!

So what with the NHS, people who have the audacity to call themselves Doctors, the weather being too hot, too windy or too wet I have been somewhat...held up and am admittedly behind where I thought I would be at this juncture. Still it matters not as this has just turned out to be a damned good start for 2014. In fact by the time 2014 comes around I should be in the water and swimming like a fish?! Well unless there is the most glaringly obvious and hugest Internet rip off of authors that has somehow been missed by smart investigative journalists, TV News Networks and Ombudsman?! Ooh wait a moment?

As for what has been posted at different stage up until this point things are all honest and above board and EXACTLY how I wanted to play it. I wanted to wax philosophical when I was in that mood, type when angry when I was in that mood too and anything else I was feeling at the time along the way. This would no doubt have used some choice language but that was what I felt at the time and I type 'from the hip' and just the way I like to do things. I did not want it or me looking manufactured and still do not nor will I ever will. I suppose the time it has taken so far kind of works for me as it seems to play along long enough so that what I do or fail to do matches the economy, in the UK at any rate, and if there is ever an improvement or drop then I should feel it?! We all should those of us that exist online to one degree or another and collectively this should be able to be used in our favour.

Along the way I have tried very hard to show that when you do not work as a team effort then as a nation we will go backwards. I am having a guess that the majority of us, like those that said it after Concorde was grounded, that we have gone backwards and none feel that more than the British Public do?! We pay more than anyone else and then find out it is either refurbished and used crap or of extremely bad build quality in the first place?! NICE, talk about getting two fingers up in your face after handing over your hard cash?! Except what I find both amusing and worrying at the same time is that either I live in a nation of extremely naïve people or many media moguls are being bribed up to the teeth to pressure the journalists into submission?! There simply are no other reasons involved and I have been seeing this stuff for what now seems like an eternity. I just did not know just how widespread it really all was and that I found quite disgusting.

So we get hammered and told about team work and team player when what they actually have meant over the last two or three decades is following orders no questions asked! No idiots and morons that is NOT what the word team means you bloody dicks! The government along with the previous one that showed us nothing more than a struggle between Tony Blair, who now looks very dodgy indeed, and Gordon Brown, who I trusted even less, and continued with the new Siamese Twins of David Cameron and Prince George Osborne is a new initiative and idea that has been in place since the inception of that famous Apple invention called the iPod. Indeed and look so many other since they have secretly copied the name of this fashionable device and implemented it into their new code name for the initiative as well as the sub-title.

iTEAM – Putting the 'I' Back in TEAM!

LMAO.

The only thing that I hope and pray is that the British Public learns from this but also that the GOVERNMENT learn from this that you have been heading down this road now since 1979 and look where it has brought us?! We are not at a juncture where it seems like before very long now (January 2014) it would seem like it has been so bad for so very long that we will have forgotten or started to forget when it was good?! Well not me, lol. If this is them matched with the problem of not being able to foresee an end and after a third and most miserable of all previous Christmases going back 3 years or more then this will have a devastating effect on the human psyche in an increasingly and ever growing number of individuals?!

Of course if you behave like the intelligent human beings you believe yourselves to be than you will read, listen and then most importantly ACT!

This is better for me as and IF done correctly and things improve I will make my own income SOONER instead of LATER!!

Hmm I wonder if they, my enemies, have tried using the excuse that I have tried to CAPITALIZE on the recession both national and global to make money or a name for myself?! Well if so …. TSK-TSK!! TUT-TUT!! Still no forethought and just scribbling silly notes on napkins?! No I am sorry it does not work like that and I just kind of blew to bits any possibility of that have I not?! No I only want to change things for the better or die trying?! Well either that or a nice foreign country that does for its people the honest and decent thing would like to give me refuge?! LOL.

So until such a time I am still minus a few items that in themselves will allow me to spend around two months really and heavily putting content on my dozen blogs that will cause it to sky rocket. This is because I have, and always have had, an ability to instinctively know what people want and provide them with it. I can also hold people's attention with my telling of tales that could well pace me in some Guild of the Bards?! I can do this in both factual things as well as fictional too and you can chuck in a whole list of sciences to boot! I can also join up the dots that seems to have impressed seemingly impossible to impress people since I was 14?! Well you had better do a rummage around on here as there are nearly 1000 posts just on this blog alone you know?! LMAO!

Yes these items, sorry I digress. Yes there are a number of things that will allow me to absolutely mount a unbelievable charge at this point in time that I could not ever look back from without getting light headed! Despite the fact I still have no TV and therefore not really able to enjoy my Blu-Ray Discs in GLORIOUS 1080p magnificence the highest priority right now is...

1. NIKON D800E SLR CAMERA + Telephoto and Macro Lenses
2. CBoardman Mountain Bike in Halfords @ £850 which will lose 7lbs on current weight
3. Out of current reach building blocks to at least ONE PC Build
   a) One for work and intended to become a SERVER RIG
   b) Another enthusiast GAMING RIG as this is my HOBBY (YESSS OK ONE OF THEM LOL) and would rocket my Computing blog among others!

Now with those three things as a basis then everything takes off and within just two to three months I will quadruple the numbers I am currently getting. This is just not achieved by anyone and now I know I am building up a high level of trust in everything I say and do among the people that read. In fact one one blog that sits alone and without advertising on it or ever intended to be placed I am now seemingly acquiring followers ever day or two?! I also know that this will increase as more and more see my blog listed on others blogs and have their interests peaked! I also know that within a few weeks of this building up the temperature will be cooling down, well in the NORTHERN HEMISPHERE, so that much of the UK, EUROPE and the USA will gradually and increasingly depending on their latitude (i.e. outdoor temperature/weather) spend more time indoors on the Internet. So If I was to hazard a guess this will start around September and October in the North of Scotland and increase as these cold temperatures work their way south.

Hmm, you see?! Many things rattling around in my head all the time I have to keep track of and make sense of! Sometimes I see a documentary and it covers something I do and I know that it will peak my numbers for a while. This is getting harder to predict as I have posted about a certain thing a number of times and lose track of how many! LOL.

Added to acquiring those three I also have a set of four glass Vivariums I intend to create the perfect environment for particular species of animals I love. Frogs, Toads, Salamanders, Newts, Lizards or even SNAKES?! SSSSSSS!! LOL. I also have my one metre aquarium sitting empty but set up and only needs the addition of FISH!!! The three bas items I listed above will allow me to do much more work and get much more content for these too and a great deal quicker to boot?!

Of course there are other items I am without and that would help with boredom, Billy-No-Mates (died or ran away), painful chores I have a dreadful habit of not being able to do or avoiding because I know it will hurt...

1. Samsung Series 7 46” TV
2. HQ Blu-Ray Player
3. Dishwasher but will have to be tiny as I am CRAMPED here
4. One of those little automatic vacuums, lol. How cool and hoe helpful.
5. Litespeed Occoe with Mavic SLR Rims, Red Magura Marta SL Brakes, SRAM XX Gears, XTR or Carbon Chain-set, DT Swiss Carbon Forks 80-100mm travel, RaceFace Carbon FLAT BARS, Ritchey WCS Carbon Seat-post, Selle Italia Gel Saddle and Crank Brothers Egg-Beater 4TI pedals in ORANGE (preferably red if poss)
   (This is just to replace the one that was stolen by a council and bailiff they got £2,800 for but told me they got £400 for and was also featured with my name in What Mountain Bike Magazine)

What I think is the very sad and the extremely disgusting part about all this is the fact that it has taken me years of being lied to, tricked, physically attacked, defrauded, left in limbo and left for DEAD just to get to this juncture. In just a couple of weeks time in August my corruption blog would have been going one year, well one of the corruption blogs lol. Around ten others were started around September to October in 2012. So for the injustice section alone I have been at this now almost a year which is a tiny fraction to the period of time I have REALLY been on it. This became a large focus as of around 8 years ago and most of my time around 4 years back but technically goes back twenty years. But lets us just take the last year alone and the amount of time it has taken me to highlight all this to the point that segments and elements of my WORK, as that IS what it IS, is being used by one and all from the House of Commons to the tabloids and TV News broadcasters without so much as an acknowledgement. This is to which I believe is the sole reason that many religious leaders, IN THE UK before you all start lol, now see the UK and it's government as being run by evil people that must be Satan worshippers?!

That funny part about all this and to put it simply to those that used elements of my blogs, and proof positive yet again to my over the top accusations of blindness to the point of incompetent and just too easy to beat...

...you have used elements of my blogs and either released bits of info or then proceeded to investigate and got your own info but did it not occur to anyone that used my work and blogs that you are NOT the only ones that have access to these blogs?! STUPIDOLA!! LOL.

Now I have mentioned this several times going back a year now and I cannot stress enough that first off I am NOT in anyway religious, which should be obvious, but at the exact same time Satan Worshippers DO EXIST!! LMAO!

Just as I could not do when it was said to me by a rather and unusually nice Jehovah's Witness, I laughed and said that for once I can not argue with them!

So here we are at the midsummers night night NIGHTMARE scenario and one has to wonder with the run-up to the umpteenth miserable Christmas, when for the first time in twenty years I want mine to be joyous, what is going to happen?!

Although there were some protests and small scale rioting I was relieved about that and I did think it would be a great deal worse then it worse, though I was working to try and show this was just folly. Well just going out and destroying the very buildings that you will then be charged for and they will then use to defraud the public's cash yet again, lol.

This cannot be put off indefinitely but at least this blog now exists as a pure fact and proof that IF the public were pushed into such an act of protest and destruction the likes of which had never been seen then I am here to say that … IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!!

I know that an action such as this is only human nature. No amount of sentencing, fines, prison terms or anything else is going to stop human nature, 'NUFF SAID! To punish human nature while those that have deliberately stoked the fires for so very long know so that they can then make others look like they are to blame, destructive and criminal and therefore not worth of any compassion is wrong, immoral and something of a contradiction in itself.

If the tables were turned they would behave the EXACT SAME WAY and therefore they need to be show that having money and power DOES NOT make them a different species to everyone else, just because you have not been put in the position to feel and fear as we have done. Carrying on like that and throughout history, including very recently, it always ends up that those that do not understand end up completely understanding when it is too late. Well it was too late for Colonel Gaddafi who took a bullet to his head! Though I do not think the British will go quite that far but fear for ones life is definitely a possibility! It is called an UPRISING these days but it used to be known as a REVOLUTION and was kind of synonymous with Russia for a long time. In the UK it is only known as the long winded … CRIMINAL ACTS OF A MASS SCALE.

Hmm that is bizarre? Anyone else note how all Dictator's always refer to it as criminal and terrorists and never use the 'R' word?! No not 'RECESSION' but 'REVOLUTION'?! Hmm must be the 're' prefix to these words?! I wonder if the UK government also plan on erasing words with an 're' prefix from history and dictionaries along with the word DISABILITY?! LMAO!

TWIN SPOT LADYBIRD

I had been having difficulty working on my blogs or doing ANYTHING with my laptop where it was currently, 80 degrees to my left. It had cause pain and discomfort and was putting me off when it came to writing for my dozen blogs.

So as I am currently and shockingly yet to start receiving any monies despite almost a year, a dozen blogs, 2000 posts, tens Gigabytes of photos, even more in the way of videos and now over 40,000 visitors I had to...IMPROVISE!

I decided to make my own SOFA TABLE, do not get me started but cut short the house is pretty small, lol.

While I was hard at work creating this table, now done but not sure about it, to help me put in more work and content on my exotic wildlife as well as my British Wildlife blog this little guy as if on CUE comes flying in and lands on what was to become the surface for my laptop and gives it an inspection?!

Being in the way I collected him or her up and let he or she go outside in the garden.

VIDEO of BLUE DRAGONFLY

VIDEO of WHITE ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY - LIMENITIS CAMILLA

APOLOGIES FOR QUALITY IT WAS DONE ON THIS FAULTY AND CRAP MOTOROLA ATRIX

VIDEOS of SILVER WASHED FRITILLARY - ARGYNNIS PAPHIA

Again sorry about quality I was using my crappy, faulty and refurbished Motorola Atrix Dumb-Phone sold to me as a brand new phone by Very Catalogue, lol.

I was picked up while out on my bike and thought my camera was in my backpack, lol.

That there is my brother Ryan you can see in the still At the same site he found some Puss Moth Caterpillars at another visit about 5 days beforehand. I discovered they were Sallow Kittens when I got home I messaged him about this and I freely admit that in the area of ALL INVERTEBRATES by knowledge is barley above minimal.

When I read his reply I though 'ooh he dont like that and I will lave him to discover it for himself.'

This day while out I was ribbing him about it and it was damned funny and you will probably catch those remarks about it. Apparently his response on better research was 'ooooh BALLACKS!!!' LMAO!

The third video is when Ryan realises that the butterflies whizzing past we thought were Commas and I later said 'Ryan I do not think they are Commas I have seen hundreds in the last few weeks these are something else!' but carried on thinking I was mistaken.

Just before that over excited pursuit of an over excited butterfly Ryan called me and said 'Marti, Martin, Martin get over here quick I am having a heart attack there is a Fritillary!!' To which I immediately dropped whatever it was I was doing and raced over!

That is about as excited I think I have ever got about a Butterfly sighting...well for about 30 minutes or so when Ryan and I saw a big dark Butterfly fly over our heads and then land on a leaf only to realise it was a White Admiral!

SILVER WASHED FRITILLARY - ARGYNNIS PAPHIA

Apologies for the picture quality and movie quality but...

I did not know I was going on this trip...

Was in a friends store on my bike, which came with us...

I THOUGHT my camera was in my backpack, lol.

Oh and we had no idea that we would end up seeing Silver Washed Fritillaries, White Admirals, Marbled Whites, something else we could not identify it looked like a big light Speckled Wood, lol.

Now there was something... else too... oh yeah a Lobster Moth Caterpillar!

Same site as the Sallow Kitten caterpillars.

WHITE ADMIRAL - LIMENITIS CAMILLA

Got a but of a shock when a large butterfly buzzes past us and then rests nearby. We then spot that it is a slightly tatty version of one of the two butterflies that are known to be found here.

This here is the White Admiral Butterfly and the one we have still yet to see is the Purple Emperor Butterfly.

Only the Purple Emperor to go then?!

LOBSTER MOTH CATERPILLAR

My brother nearly passed out as I was reading a sign about the woods.

He called me over and he had discovered this made looking caterpillar he informs me is a Lobster Moth. He sent pictures to another brother to make him envious.

Oddly this is not in my book of Butterflies and Moths so certainly out of the ordinary.

Will have to add the latin name at a later date too, lol.

PILLBUG MILLIPEDE

My brother Ryan called me and then picked me up for a trip out.

We ended up at Broxbourne Woods and before things really interesting, not forgetting bloody painful, Ryan spotted this Millipede and I forgot Tyre name Pillbug until I was about to upload it.

This one killed different than normal, a little darker.

VIDEOS of VAPOURER MOTH CATERPILLAR - Orgyia antiqua

Here are a couple of videos of a caterpillar that I remember from my childhood and quite possibly not seen since then!

One of these annoying beautiful caterpillars that I then got told by my 'other' brother that turned into a quite unremarkable moth, lol.

VIDEO of LARGE SKIPPER BUTTERFLY - Ochlodes sylvanus

VIDEO of SALLOW KITTEN MOTH CATERPILLAR - Furcula furcula

Quite how Ryan spotted this I do not know. Obvious once you know it is there but it was extremely small!

We had hunted for Puss Moth caterpillars and this came awfully close and my brother was almost convinced he had found them but the diminutive size made it tricky.

We can't know everything yah knoww?! LOL!

The site is also home to White Admirals and Purple Emperors might be present too as they are also at a nearby site?! I am hoping to find out if I can get a train to somewhere nearby and get there on my bike?!

Would have to be under 24 Degrees Celsius for me to do that though?!

VIDEO of PEBBLE PROMINENT MOTH CATERPILLAR - Notodonta ziczac

Up at this picturesque site we also saw this unusual looking caterpillar.

VIDEO of BUFF TIP MOTH CATERPILLARS - Phalera bucephala

Me and my brother Ryan out for a hunt. These ones will almost always produce something as he has an ability to spot many things I have trouble with.

The site has had White Admiral Butterflies along with Purple Emperors some Orchids I have yet to see in the wild and many other things too.

SALLOW KITTEN MOTH CATERPILLAR - FURCULA FURCULA

We had gone in search of Puss Moth caterpillars but ended up with Sallow Kitten Moth Caterpillars so ... almost but not quite, lol.

AN interesting species nevertheless and similar caterpillars too. I find it odd the genus names are diferent due to the similarities of both Moth and the Larvae?! In fact the Puss Moth Caterpillar at the exact same instar stage is absolutely identical in shape but lacks those light blotches and has tips at the end of the two tails that are bright red. Also there are some red markings along the flanks of the Puss Moth caterpillar too.

This caterpillar was VERY tiny.

NOTCH HORNED CLEG FLY (HORSE-FLY) - HAEMOTOPUS PLUVIALIS

Well this was the first time I had seen one of these up close and was not quite what I was expecting!

A Horse-Fly female, which are the ones that bite, and this one properly known as a Notch-Horned Cleg Fly and my brother Ryan is holding the fly after just capturing it. Unfortunately the reason behind him NOTICING it was that it had just bit him in the hand!

Also seen the Latin listed on Wikipedia (cannot be trusted) as Haematopota psedolusitanica (straight away I am pretty sure the species name should be pseudolusitanica so 'pseudo' and not 'psedo')

VIDEOS of PURPLE HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY - NEOZEPHYRUS QUERCUS

HOLLY BLUE BUTTERFLY - CELASTRINA ARGIOLUS

Shocked to see this and it immediately took off followed by my after it.

I got fifty yards and I was called back by my brother Ryan because he had spotted Purple Hairstreak Butterflies.

PURPLE HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY - NEOZEPHYRUS QUERCUS

Around 50 yards from my Crop Crossing that I have uploaded a few pictures of my brother spotted these Purple Hairstreak Butterflies that he had hoped to find on a previous evening out.

He has just spotted a Holly Blue Butterfly, next post, which I then went sprinting after due to only getting one photo. I was 50 yards away when he asked me to return with the camera and he spotted these.

I passed the camera to him and he sot these pictures and a couple of videos over on my YouTube account.

THE COCKCHAFER BEETLE or MAY BUG - MELOLONTHA MELOLONTHA

Well it is July and not MAY but these Cockchafer Beetles were out in some force?!

This one was stuck upside down and I let him grab the end of my walking stick, photographed and filmed him then placed him on some grass where he or she was safe on the other side of a wall!

A night or two before there were over a dozen of these at the end of my road?! This was taken about three days back.

VIDEOS of FAMILY OF LITTLE EGRETS - EGRETTA GARZETTA

OOPS I fogot to post these videos of a family, or group, of FIVe, count them, Little Egrets that were feeding alongside a pair of Northern Lapwings.

FAMILY OF LITTLE EGRETS - EGRETTA GARZETTA

Along with the two Lapwings I sptted no less than THREE Little Egrets together and all feeding?!

This is an unsual site and while I was filiming, yes I filmed them and over on my YouTube account along with the Lapwings, a guy came up behind me and said 'wow that IS unusual....you don't normally see three together!'

Well within minutes of him walking away two more appeared out of nowhere and they must have been hiding in the grass?! So there was a total of FIVE in all, all together and I think it must have been a pair and their chicks. I would wager that they bred on the Lea Valley Park somewhere between Hook Marsh Scrape and Holyfield Lake?!