And last week The Mother discovered this on the lawn. Well Bitey discovered it and The Mother went over to see what he was staring at. An elephant hawkmoth caterpillar (she thought it was a poo!)
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!* It's going to devour us all!!!!
I think it's about time for a Garden Photos Event reminder, don't you, Very Mistress?
The House of
I N F O M A N I A C
Garden Photos Event 2025
As with previous years, this year's GPE will be held throughout November, with the event kicking off on Hallowe'en with the now traditional Terrifying Triffidery exhibit. This leaves you little more than three months to take photos of your green spaces (if you haven't already made a start) and curate them before emailing them to me by the end of October.
Infomaniac Bitches should already know the score, but for the muddled, forgetful, and easily startled/distracted - not to mention anyone new who'd like to take part - there's a potted history of the Infomaniac GPE on its own dedicated page at the top of this blog so you can see what you'll be letting yourself in for/getting involved in. And despite some comments to the contrary, the GPE is NOT a contest, so your gardening efforts (or lack thereof) will not be judged and there will be no winner. This means you, Savvy!
There's no particular theme this year - we'll accept photos of pretty much anything garden-related, whether selected prize specimens that would make Monty Don weep or breathtaking vistas of your expansive grounds, to the potted dwellers on your balcony/windowsill, to a resilient plant that you haven't managed to kill yet.
And if you have a straggly and unruly bush that you suspect may be a weed but fascinated you enough to wonder what it is, the Official Plant Spotter of Hexenhäusli Device and its Extensive Witchdom, nay, All of Blogdom Itself, Jon, should be on hand to identify your unmentionables.
Right. That's that bit done. Here are a few bits & bobs from my garden this month to goad you into action:
A hummingbird hawk moth drinking from one of the buddleias in the Hexenhäusli Device gardens this afternoon.
Oh my gods!!! They're almost holding hands! They're going to do It*!!!!!!
(Two of my three favourite** lowest of the Lower Deckers - Fin*** the super-hot, pretty boy human med tech and Charlie**** the adorable Andorian engineer - from the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, "Twovix". I took this photo back in April as I couldn't take a screen shot and couldn't find one online [I have found one since then, though] - I wanted it for research purposes, the end result of which will probably be posted here at some point.)
Bitey on the beach on Wednesday evening.
Someone in this house had this for tea on Wednesday - and it certainly wasn't me!
* According to First Officer Jack Ransom (in "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place"), the Cerritos is the "horniest ship in the fleet" (and doesn't have any married couples on board).
*** He's not named in the show as he's just a non-speaking background character, but he looks remarkably like my backup lifeguard at the pool I swim in, so I've given him the same name.
An hour or so later it had disappeared - probably having climbed high enough to launch itself into the air and fly away to somewhere more hospitable (and darker) than my carport.
What? Since when was two people showing a polite, vague interest "popular demand"?
Since now. Go and interfere somewhere else. This is my post!
I think you'll find it is our post. After all, whose name is on all those header images further down, hmm?
Oh, hush. Why don't you go and see to that ever widening Cusp interface before someone - or someones - falls in!
Fine. I'll leave you to your little doodles, then!
Right. Now that Witchface has gone, here is the Art vs Artist thingy I mentioned in the last post. It's something I saw on BlueSky so I thought I'd have a go, too.
The majority that I saw are 3x3 square grids with a photo of the artist in the centre square surrounded by eight pieces of their work, so I followed the same pattern (it's all Star Trek stuff as I rarely produce any other kind):
We shall try to identify the various plants featured here, but The Host couldn't be bothered to stoop down and find the labels and photograph them while at the gardens, despite my nagging urging, so The Official Plant Spotter of Hexenhäusli Device and its Extensive Witchdom - AKA Jon - may have his work cut out.
I was with a friend! I had gossiping and laughing to do, not to mention trying to keep Witchface under wraps, so grubbing around in the undergrowth was low on my list of priorities!
Anyway, before we set off, Alison Goldfrapp has kindly offered to provide a musical accompaniment with her latest release, Sound & Light:
I think these may be the flowers of Dianella caerulea?
(The plants I grew from seeds liberated from TOVG back in 2019 haven't flowered yet. They're not doing very well where they are - and get trampled quite a lot by Bitey - so I will probably have to move them.)
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