I enjoyed the program, I agree with those who thought the tattoo and artwork segments felt a bit "tacked-on".

I shall probably watch it again on iPlayer and just skip through the bits that didn't appeal so much.

Only two seen today. BBC West had a little bit on their 7.55am news bulletin about the migration, accompanied by pictures of Large Blues. Good to see they've done their research!

Jack - I'm in coastal Somerset (in a town that faces west onto the Bristol channel). I've just been into the town centre and they're pootling about every which-way. I wondered if their direction over our yard had something to do with heat convection - the area of tarmac is about 20m x 20m so in this...

Counted 15 in the last half hour flying over our yard at work - all entering from north-west corner and exiting at south-east corner - all that I saw took exactly the same route

ditto - Red Admiral for me today in coastal Somerset

yeah Gruditch, i suppose you're right, but i am a bit of an anorak; in fact i'm not just any anorak, i'm a blue anorak with orange lining, a furry hood and mittens sewn into the arms

Nice M12 Martin, at last a personal plate that's applicable to the car it's on! We do tyres on a local M10 and when it's parked in our yard it attracts more attention from passers-by than any other sports/performance/classic that ever comes in (though I don't think the M10 is anywhere near as attrac...

When it's too cold and rainy I'll be in a big shed tinkering with a traction engine Ooh, likey likey. My father recently dug out all his old cine film of when he and his friends used to tear(!) around the countryside on traction engines in the 70's, I had no idea that anything that moves so slowly ...

Mouse, it's beautiful - it really captures that ethereal green sheen - lovely!

The garden of the school where mother teaches was filled with Commas at the weekend, getting tipsy on the windfalls (mmmmm.... cider apple time.....)

Gramophones and pre-war cars. That reminds me, must get my anorak dry-cleaned

This is the same as my car, although mine's green;



bit of birding, too - though mostly done through the telescope at home

Gruditch wrote that he is a: a short arse Ladies. You might be able to answer this. Are men of reduced stature (vertically challenged) proportionally challenged in other parts of their anatomy? Jack Jack - a long time ago I dated a chap who was 6'10" - he had very, very large feet but there se...

I've lost quite a bit of weight since that was filmed, it's like looking at the "old" me

there's also a little tie-in story featuring Matthew on the BBC Hampshire pages; http://www.bbc.co.uk/hampshire/index.shtml

It was, quite possibly, one of the best days of my life (well, close behind the day I met my wonderful other half!). I can still smell the whiff of belachan past floating on the air...

Here's a link to the episode featuring the Purple Emperor http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dm5bs/

The article starts at 16' 48"

I'm in the Purple Emperor episode, can't wait to see it!

I like eccle's suggestion - Gaspode the Wonder Dog

that's helped me too - I had one of these the other week!

cheers for that, Danny - I missed the Large Blue episode so I shall have a gander at that later

I love watching Matthew on telly - he has an enthusiasm which I find very contagious.

Roger, darling - no offence taken. I am a learner, with a great big L plate slapped on my (borrowed) camera. I am interested in learning how to take better photographs, so all constructive criticism is duly noted (and sometimes even followed :wink: ) Like I said when I posted the photo, I was intere...