Found in a garden in Worcestershire

Think it's a shoofly Sticki.
The insect in the shot is a wasp :)

It is Shoofly (Nicandra physalodes). Very nice!

it was lovely ~ thanks meanie and lil ~ funny names they give these things!!

i found it at Burford House ~ took lots of photos ~ particularly of this shoofly! may do a blog later ~ OH playing bridge which i cant and dont want to play.

i was ok identifying the wasp lil!!!

:)

Sue has taken up playing Bridge too - probably because she can't win at Scrabble anymore!!

Are you implying that you win at scrabble??
I wouldnt even win at happy families!!!

used to love hockey though!!

I wouldn't have known this either,Sticki..but it is really nice..:o)..and I hated Hockey!.. My parents couldn't afford the Boots,so my friend used to lend me hers.If she couldn't,I had to wear my school shoes..and then I got Detention,and had to walk a mile back to school,as we didn't have our own playing field,..and paint all the Hockey balls,white !! ...not so much the Hockey,really ,but those memories..:o((
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oh dear oh dear that is a really naughty punishment but im sorry it did make me laugh!!!!

our school playing field was over a mile away from the school so this is what we had to do ~ aged 11 onwards:

Have first lunch
Walk to games field ~ over a mile along busy roads
Cross country ~ about 3 miles around the pits ~ clay!!!
Play a game of hockey
Walk back to the school to catch coach home!!!!

We play Scrabble very competitively Sticki - combined scores are usually 650/700, but frequently manage to keep the board very closed up with short words to b#gger the other player up. Counting the laid letters (ie; how many 's' or 'e' etc have been laid) is normal, missing a go is good to get her head going, all that sort of stuff!

that is some game!!! perhaps more akin to a sport!!! almost a spectator sport ~ you will be on tv next!!!

Not great TV!!
She scowls too often!!!!

I'm beginning to wonder if you got your avatar name from playing scrabble??
Don't tell me you never scowl?

Only when I lose!!

Which is not often???

25/30% of the time maybe (only when she's lucky with her letters)!!!

Oh of course! And when you are unlucky?? You surely never loo....loo...don't win?

I must admit that I do get unlucky sometimes!!!!

lovely pic

Pretty :)

Do you know I was too busy reading all the letters that I completely forgot what i was looking at, so had to go back again.I've never heard of this but it is very pretty.

I have to confess I like it when one of my blogs goes off track!

..as they all seem to be doing,Sticki..me too .:o))

Lots of wanderings - great fun!
We certainly have got some very funny blogs on at the moment.

I agree,..it's nice to add a bit of humour along the way..:o)

only way to survive i think. im not good without it i know that.

Definitely,Sticki..just like the gardening..a good combination...:o)

They had some shoofly at Rosemoor if I remember rightly. Dont they have odd looking buds?
Ken and I used to play a lot of bridge Meanie..now if you want scowls, arguments and downright rows...play bridge! I must admit we only ever had one argument, but other folks could be so scathing it put you off. We even got to play for the county, but I really didnt like the backbiting

definitely enough to put me off ~ had enough of that in a previous existence thanks!!

yes i loved the buds.

Well-photographed :o)

Thanks TT, I took lots cos it fascinated me.