I Think It's Tuesday

and it seems ages since I posted.   Life seems busy and ordinary and plods on between croquet matches, the gym, coffees and occasional meals with friends and, of course, The Family.  I even have some posts almost finished but not quite.   So before I go to bed I shall post a few snippets.

The public road off which our drive comes is beautiful and it's been hot so this horse has been sheltering:

When your country is shown on the television in map form as happens in the UK and New Zealand we appear as islands - 'cos we are islands.  For the UK there is always a relativity to the landmass of continental Europe.  When New Zealand is shown it becomes obvious just how isolated we are

This evening I was at a friend's for dinner - on the terrace overlooking the sea.   Wonderful.  Even if we had the weather for it on Lewis the midges would drive you back indoors very quickly.   Later we had some supper: fruit and chocolate and almond paste cookies.  If you come to me you will likely get a good selection of cheese for supper which is nowhere near as healthy nor as photogenic!

I had a moth in the house yesterday.  Quite a beauty in a quiet sort of way.  I think it may be a Looper Moth - perhaps a Carpet of some sort - but an identification would be appreciated.

And on that note bed and Words With Friends beckons.

Night night.

Post script - Wednesday.  Following the link in Katherine's comment I trawled through page after page of pictures of Looper moths on the New Zealand Landcare Research website.  The nearest I could come up with is Gellonia dejectaria (commonly known as the brown evening moth).  According to Wikipedia it is a moth of the Geometridae family, it is native to New Zealand and that G. dejectaria caterpillars eat the leaves of the māhoe, supplejack and bush lawyer plants.  So far as I am aware there are none of these in this vicinity but then there may well be.  However whilst looking for other pictures of the G. dejectaria I discovered that many of them bore absolutely no resemblance to the NZLR image nor, often, to each other.  So I am really not a lot closer.  Given that there are hundreds of different moths around here I think this is one area that my curiosity is about to leave alone!