AOG: Butterfly Time Trials

You join us on a very sunny, hot and humid Day 11 for the Butterfly garden time trial. This is a very nervous Paul the Peacock butterfly at the starting line for his first Olympics. Paul wasn't expected to do well, but he brilliantly designed a quick course around the 5 gardens and arrived back in time to snatch Silver from Ray the Red Admiral, with Sammy the Small White taking Gold and retaining his title. 

Day 149 / Full Day 141 of Lockdown / Day 39 of Step 3 (for my record only)
UK deaths up 103 to 46,629, with new cases daily up by 1,148 (technical problems on Govt website are preventing the numbers being published until 12th). Russia approved the World's first Covid-19 vaccine, but did so before Phase 3 trials have started. A Sky News undercover investigation in a Greater Manchester suburb showed that 9 out of 10 hospitality venues visited were not asking for customer contact details and in 2 venues social distancing was being ignored. 730k UK jobs lost since March. Debenhams cuts a further 2,500 jobs. The Scottish exam moderation system has been abandoned and pupils granted grades as their teacher had predicted. The moderation might have been flawed and potentially biased, but abandoning it completely seems odd as this year's Higher pass rate is now 89.2%, up 14.4 percentage points on last year, with an Advanced Highers pass rate of 93.1% which is up 13.7 percentage points, making it far less useful for universities and employers.