On 05/09/2013 19:14, Baz wrote:
Corporal Jones wrote in
:

I have had an abundance of caterpillars in the garden this year eating
everything in sight but even I could not hurt this one.
A 3" long Elephant hawk moth caterpillar crawled across the drive
whilst I was cutting the front garden hedge, picked it up and it's
trunk retracted just leaving two apparent large eyes looking at me
with a sympatheticlook.
Took it across the drive and let it go on its way (probably to my
Fuchsias).

Barry

Did your tortoise follow you? Or was he too fast? Or were you cutting your
hedge v e r y slowly?
Only joking.

Baz
As Thursday was going to be the last sunny day before the rain came I
thought I had better get on with it.
I was working rather slowly in the heat, reached a high of 29.7c in my
garden, couldn't keep up with the tortoise.

Barry